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short stories by Maupassant

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  • Guy de Maupassant
    In Guy de Maupassant: Mature life and works of Guy de Maupassant

    …books of short stories include Toine (1886), Le Horla (1887), Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888; “The Rose-Bush of Madame Husson”), and L’Inutile Beauté (1890; “The Useless Beauty”). Four more novels also appeared: Mont-Oriol (1887), on the financing of a fashionable watering place; Pierre et Jean; Fort comme la mort…

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