Guy de Maupassant
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- The Necklace (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Piece of String (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Bel-Ami (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Mont-Oriol (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- A Woman's Life (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Detective Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Supernatural Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
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- A Woman's Life (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Mont-Oriol (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Bel-Ami (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Love (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Madame Tellier's Establishment (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Two Little Soldiers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Although he became famous above all for his well-crafted short stories, Guy de Maupassant also wrote poems, plays, and three successful novels: Une Vie (1883; A Woman’s Life, 1888), Bel-Ami (1885; English translation, 1889), and Pierre et Jean (1888; Pierre and Jean, 1890). His preface to Pierre and Jean has attracted a considerable amount of attention over the years because it reveals the profound influence that Gustave Flaubert exerted on Maupassant’s development as a writer. Maupassant was not,...
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