title: The complete short stories of De Maupassant
author: Guy de Maupassant
description: The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total.
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  # Original Maupassant Short Stories, Vol. 1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Guy de Maupassant
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Translated by
  
  
  ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A.
  
  
  A. E. HENDERSON, B.A.
  
  
  MME. QUESADA and Others
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ###  GUY DE MAUPASSANT--A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a
  
  
  thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the
  
  
  occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity,
  
  
  not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten
  
  
  years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility
  
  
  of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to
  
  
  sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . .
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  In the month of April, 1880, an article appeared in the "Le Gaulois"
  
  
  announcing the publication of the Soirees de Medan. It was signed by a
  
  
  name as yet u