Selected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Author: (French) Guy de Maupassant / Qinglan / Li Yanchun
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Maupassant was not only an outstanding French critical realist writer but also a master of short stories in the world. His writing is meticulous, simple, authentic, and fluent. His works are well-structured, rich in content, profound in thought, and pure in emotion. With natural and straightforward language, he reveals selfishness, greed, cunning, hypocrisy, ignorance, and cruelty in people, while praising justice, courage, kindness, purity, mutual help, and self-sacrifice in the world. Maupassant's short stories, with their intricate and changing plots, balanced arrangements, versatile brushwork, and skillful yet complete structure, vividly depict life fragments intertwined by money, power, survival, hardship, death, joy, sorrow, wisdom, and love. They express noble ideological beliefs, beautiful emotions, and a pursuit of beauty.