A Life

Name: A Life
Author: Guy de Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

Novella tracing married woman's slow deterioration through life's disappointments and suffering

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Guy de Maupassant

French author considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His nearly 300 stories depict Norman peasants, the Franco-Prussian War, and Parisian bourgeois life with unsparing realism and psychological acuity.

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