Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories: The Necklace and Other Short Stories (Paperback)

from RobinDawson

What a great short story writer de Maupassant is - just delicious. His style is concise with every sentence working towards the story's conclusion. Characters are so vividly described, the social scene and its tensions are exquisitely captured, and irony is everpresent. The topics range widely an...

from Sean191

I hadn't read any of Guy de Maupassant's work previously (that I recall), but I picked this up at a used bookstore late in November and grabbed it as a "classical" read to dive into. Every story was entertaining, but the final story, "The Horla," which was a ghost story/haunting of sorts, was by ...

from joririchardson

This was my first sampling of Maupassant, and I loved it. He writes with a very flowery, polished air, and the topics of his short stories range from prostitutes to fine ladies, sickness and madness, poor and wealthy, soldiers and commoners. His characters are as varied as they are humanly realis...

from benuathanasia

Maupassant is an absolutely wonderful writer. Creative and innovative. I really enjoyed his work.

from Bookslesstravelled

This book shocked me, not the endings I had expected, but that is one of the reasons I loved it