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A selection of Maupassant´s brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside.

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Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant´s works available in Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean.

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de Maupassant, Guy
Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. In addition to his six novels, which include Bel-Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888), he wrote hundreds of short stories, the most famous of which is ´Boule de suif´. By the late 1870s, he began to develop the first signs of syphilis, and in 1891 he was committed to an asylum in Paris, having tried to commit suicide. He died there two years later.

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