Quinze Contes: A Selection with Introduction and Notes

by Guy de Maupassant, F.C. Green (editor)

Stories in French (only), with a brief introduction and notes in English.

Genres: France, Short Stories

Paperback

First published January 1, 1943

About the author

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

Reviews

[Pamela]

Read this for my French A Level back in the 1980s, and unlike most enforced school reading I still remember these stories with great pleasure.

[Sarah]

Une bonne collection d'histoires. L'accent prussien m'a laissé perplexe (tout comme mon professeur de cours), mais en général j'ai apprécié l'aspect "tranche de vie" des contes.