Guy de Maupassant produced an astonishing body of work in little over a decade before his death in 1893, and this eighth volume of his collected works brings together more of his precisely crafted short fiction. A student of Flaubert, Maupassant wrote with an economy and clarity that set the standard for the modern short story, exploring Norman peasant life, Parisian society, the Franco-Prussian War, and the darkest corners of human psychology.
Each story is a small masterpiece of observation. Download this public-domain volume as a free EPUB.