{"product_id":"the-tales-of-guy-de-maupassant-the-heritage-press","title":"The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (The Heritage Press)","description":"xii, 472 pp. The translations by Lafcadio Hearn and others chosen and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrations from water-colors by Gunter Bohmer. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story \"Boule de Suif\" (\"Ball of Fat\", 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece. His most unsettling horror story, \"Le Horla\" (1887), was about madness and suicide. Includes 49 stories \"The Piece of String\", \"Happiness\", \"The Dowry\", \"On a Spring Evening\", \"Madame Tellier's Establishment\", \"Saint Anthony\", \"A Madman\", \"The Necklace\", \"The Hand\", \"Two Friends\", \"The Shepherd's Leap\", \"A Crisis\", \"The Story of a Farm Girl\", \"Simon's Papa\", \"The Child\", \"Chali\", \"The Old Man\", \"The Signal\", \"A Vendetta\", \"The Jewelry\", \"Clochette\", \"Roly-Poly (Boule de Suif)\", \"My Uncle Jules\", \"The Prisoners\", \"A Parricide\", \"Miss Harriet\", \"The Baptism\", \"Denis\", \"That Pig of a Morin\", \"At the Spa\", \"Waiter, a Bock!\", \"The Adopted Child\", \"The Adventures of Walter Schnaffs\", \"The Chair Mender\", \"The Little Cask\", \"In the Wood\", \"The Return\", \"Joseph\", \"The Olive Grove\", \"Am I Insane'\", \"The Fare\", \"The Confession\", \"Toine\", \"Graveyard Sirens\", \"A Revelation\", \"La Mere Sauvage\", \"He!\", \"A Coward\" and \"The Colonel's Ideas\" - de Maupassant is credited with creating the modern short story form.","brand":"The Heritage Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40541834707014,"sku":"2332355","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2332355.jpg?v=1679430385","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tales-of-guy-de-maupassant-the-heritage-press","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}