title: The Complete Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
author:  Guy de Maupassant 
description: a 1941 collection of stories in a soft covered book for ease of handling that comes with a hard little box to keep it in
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  Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), journalist, novelist, poet, memoirist,
  playwright, and short-story writer, was one of the most notable men of letters
  of nineteenth-century France. He was born in Normandy to a middle-class family
  that had adopted the noble “de” prefix only a generation earlier. An
  indifferent student, Maupassant enlisted in the army during the Franco-
  Prussian War — staying only long enough to acquire an intense dislike for all
  things military — and then went on to a career as a civil servant. His entrée
  to the literary world was eased by Gustave Flaubert, who had been a childhood
  playmate of his mother’s and who took the young man under his wing,
  introducing him into salon society. The bulk of Maupassant’s published works,
  including nearly three hundred short stories and six novels, were written
  between 1880 and 1890, a period in which he also contributed to several
  Parisian daily newspapers. Among his best-known works are the novels _Bel-Ami_
  and _Pierre and 