Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. A New Translation by H.N.P. Sloman:

Contains 22 stories:
The Mountain Inn
The Risks of Riding,
La Horla
The Necklace
The Umbrella
Love
The Twelfth Night Party
A Corsican Bandit
The Wreck
The Drowned Man
The Little Cask
Mademoiselle Pearl
The Blind Man A Picnic in the Country
The Farm Girl’s Story
Mother Savage
Fear
The Mask
Mother Dot-and-go-one
The Christening
Gaffer Milo
The Gamekeeper