Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Volume VI #6

A collection of 15 short stories by Guy de Maupassant: That Costly Ride - Useless Beauty - The Father - My Uncle Sosthenes - The Baroness - Mother and Son - The Hand - A Tress of Hair - On the River - The Cripple - A Stroll - Alexandre - The Log - Julie Romain - The Rondoli Sisters... “I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death.....