About Author

Guy de Maupassant

Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" is often considered his most famous work. By the second half of the 20th century, it was generally recognized that Maupassant’s popularity as a short-story writer had declined and that he was more widely read in the English-speaking countries than in France.