The Universal Story Generator exists. He lived in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Sandra Smith’s fine new selection and translation of his stories has just been published. The ...
In the first half of the 19th century, the British began to discover Normandy. Previously, the point of entry into France for most travellers had been Calais, which felt safely half-English, and where ...
Few writers in the realm of literature managed to explore the uncharted regions of the human mind and the dark recesses of the heart as deeply as Guy de Maupassant did. The grim realities which de ...
His was a vile death, the madness caused by syphilis and its related physical horrors. It was an end that he knew he was facing and had tried to avoid by attempting suicide some 18 months earlier. But ...
When I was 13 and had just arrived at a new school, our first set text was Cakes and Ale. It still baffles me even now that someone thought a bunch of 13-year-olds might enjoy Somerset Maugham's ...
Having now read 98 of the 290 short stories written by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), from four English translation anthologies with many repeats between them, I am convinced that he was the best ...
We knowGuy de Maupassant (1850-93) as France’s greatest practitioner of the short story. He is as widely anthologized as O. Henry and is known, in the U.S. at least, for much the same thing: the ...
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