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He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as the necklace, the horla, the false gems, and useless beauty. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Click on note to be taken to the relevant discussion, and then on return to come back to the. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. When flaubert, maupassants mentor, read it he was ecstatic, he wrote. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. The ten travelers decide, for various reasons, to leave rouen and flee to le havre in a stagecoach. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. Listen to unlimited audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android.

It is arguably his most famous short story, and is. It helps that his chosen form is the short story it makes him much less forbidding than someone like balzac or. Its about a prostitute whose refrain, like bartlebys, is that she would prefer not toin this case, a prussian officer asks repeatedly for the pleasure. In 1869 maupassant started to study law in paris, but soon, at the age of 20, he volunteered to serve in the. A protege of flaubert, maupassant s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless denouements. Its about a prostitute whose refrain, like bartlebys, is that she would prefer not toin this case, a prussian officer asks repeatedly for the pleasure of her intimate company, and she invariably denies him. During the 1880s maupassant created some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. I think this book is very monotonous because its language is old and it talks about history backgrounds, which is slightly boring. His 300 stories were written in the naturalist style and often described the life of the lower and middle classes.