Selected Stories

In this collection of short stories, the French writer Maupassant was able to take the reader to a fertile world of human interaction between nature and humans, where nature is embodied in several aspects not only related to the French countryside, but also to the fierce fluctuations of nature, and these states appear in the human soul and its states of anger, joy, sadness, love, and hate. In his writings, Maupassant generally tends to dissect the human soul in its various class and social conflicts, which reveal the deepest and most cruel emotions at the same time. In his stories, poverty and wealth, betrayal and loyalty, tragedy and the search for absent happiness juxtapose. He writes in a narrative style that attracts the reader's interest with his witty selection of his heroes, who range from bourgeois, peasant, and ordinary people, as if he seeks, through this diversity, to present, through the short story, an intense picture of the fair-skinned models that Paris was full of in his time.