His was a vile death, the madness caused by syphilis and its related physical horrors. It was an end that he knew he was facing and had tried to avoid by attempting suicide some 18 months earlier. But ...

On the anniversary of Guy de Maupassant's birth in 1850, The New Republic's 1926 review of two books chronicling his life: Guy de Maupassant, A Biographical Study, by Ernest Boyd, and The Life, Work ...

Having now read 98 of the 290 short stories written by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), from four English translation anthologies with many repeats between them, I am convinced that he was the best ...

Few writers in the realm of literature managed to explore the uncharted regions of the human mind and the dark recesses of the heart as deeply as Guy de Maupassant did. The grim realities which de ...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Until they teach an unfortunate lesson about superficiality. Guy de Maupassant's short story, "The Necklace," is read by Fireside Al. Mathilde Loisel lives a simple ...

In 1975, the year I turned 11, I was sent to work in a tobacco field in one of the small, red-clayed, mosquito-ridden towns that surround the city of Havana like a string of pearls. This was not a ...

Elliot Cowan is Guy de Maupassant and Holli Dempsey his unsuspecting accomplice in this phantasmagorical journey through the author’s most personal short stories. Show more A phantasmagorical journey ...

FRANÇOIS TASSART, who was valet to Guy de Maupassant, left a book of Meémoires, which is now to be found, covered with dust and neglect, only on the back shelves of obscure French libraries, or ...