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    Written by Guy de Maupassant

    Narrated by Roy Macready

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    Guy de Maupassant (1850 – 1893) is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of it's finest exponents. From the humorous to the tragic to the gruesome, with an economy and precision of language , his stories can delight or disturb. Here are ten of them:

    “The Hand”
    “The Apparition”
    “The Diary of a Madman”
    “The Blind Man”
    “On the River”
    “Mother Sauvage”
    “Tombstones”
    “A Tress of Hair”
    “The Diamond Necklace”
    “An Uncomfortable Bed”

    Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateNov 26, 2016
    ISBN9781509461561
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    Guy de Maupassant

    <p><b>Guy de Maupassant</b> nació en 1850 en el castillo de Miromesnil, en el seno de una ennoblecida familia normanda y se crio en Étretat, al cuidado de su madre, que se había separado de su marido. En 1869 partió hacia París con la intención de estudiar Derecho pero la guerra franco-prusiana trastocará sus planes: se alistó como voluntario y combatió en Normandía.</p> <p>Acabada la guerra, de la mano de Flaubert, amigo de su madre, conoció en París a la sociedad literaria del momento; en 1880 publicó su cuento <em>Bola de sebo</em> en el volumen colectivo <em>Las veladas de Médan</em>, piedra fundacional del movimiento naturalista. Otros cuentos como los contenidos en <em>La casa Tellier</em> (1881) o <em>Mademoiselle Fifi</em> (1882) lo acreditaron como uno de los maestros del género, de modo que cuando en 1883 salió a la luz su primera novela, <em>Una vida</em> (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XLI), ya era un escritor famoso. A esta novela siguieron otras de la talla de <em>Bel Ami</em> (1885; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. CXIX), <em>Mont-Oriol</em> (1887; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. II), <em>Pierre y Jean</em> (1888), <em>Fuerte como la muerte</em> (1889) y <em>Nuestro corazón</em> (1890; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. LXVI). Murió en París en 1893, víctima de una enfermedad hereditaria que lo llevó a la locura.</p> <p>«Maupassant –escribiría Joseph Conrad–, a quien se ha llamado maestro del mot juste, nunca ha sido un mero tratante de palabras. Sus mercancías no han sido cuentas de vidrio sino pulidas gemas: quizá no las más raras y preciosas, pero sí con las mejores aguas de su género.»</p>

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