Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works

Introduction GUY DE MAUPASSANT'S SELECTED WORKS Tales of French Life — The Necklace (La Parure) — My Uncle Jules (Mon Oncle Jules) — The Protector (Le Protecteur) — The Journey (Le Voyage) — Mademoiselle Pearl (Mademoiselle Perle) — The Umbrella (La Parapluie) — On Horseback (A Cheval) — The Baptism (Le Baptême) — In the Countryside (Aux Champs) — Adieu (Adieu) — A Day in the Country (Une Partie de Campagne) — The Question of Latin (La Question du Latin) Tales of War — Boule de Suif (Boule de Suif) — Novella — Mademoiselle Fifi (Mademoiselle Fifi) — The Madwoman (La Folle) — Lieutenant Laré's Marriage (Le Mariage du Lieutenant Laré) — Two Friends (Deux Amis) — Père Milon (Le Père Milon) — The Adventure of Walter Schnaffs (L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs) — La Mère Sauvage (La Mère Sauvage) — The Prisoners (Les Prisonniers) — A Duel (Un Duel) Tales of the Supernatural — Le Horla (Le Horla)— Novella — On the Water (Sur l'eau) — Fear (La Peur) — The Apparition (L'Apparition) — The Hand (La Main) — Lost at Sea (Le Noyé) — Who Can Know? (Qui sait?) — A Nightmare (La Nuit: Un Cauchemar) CONTEXTS The Craft of Fiction — Preface to Pierre et Jean (1888) Politics — Letter to Gustave Flaubert, December 10, 1877 — Article in Le Gaulois, September 8, 1881 [Politicians and Principles] — Article in Gil Blas, April 7, 1885 [Elected Representatives] — Article in Le Gaulois, December 23, 1889 [Republicanism] War — Letter to Gustave Flaubert, January 5, 1880 — Article in Le Gaulois, April 10, 1881: War Social Types — Article in Le Gaulois, June 9, 1881: The Social Hierarchy — Article in Le Gaulois, January 4, 1882 [Government Employees] — Essay in Les Types de Paris (1889): [The Laboring Classes] — Essay in Les Types de Paris (1889): [Housemaids] — Article in Le Gaulois, March 16, 1883 [Good Citizens of France] — Article in Le Gaulois, January 3, 1883 [The Parisian Provincial] Women, Love, and Marriage — Article in Le Gaulois, December 30, 1880 [Schopenhauer's View of Women] — Letter to Gisèle d'Estoc, January 1881 — Article in Gil Blas, October 29, 1881 [The "Parisienne"] — Article in Le Gaulois, November 22, 1881 [Marriage and Adultery] — Preface to René Maizeroi's Celles qui osent (1883) — Preface to Paul Ginisty's L'Amour à Trois (1884) — Article in Le Gaulois, June 25, 1882: Elderly Women The Supernatural — Article in Le Gaulois, November 8, 1881 [Mystery and Myth] — Article in Le Gaulois, October 7, 1883: The Fantastic Pessimism, Illness, and Despair — Letter to Caroline Commanville, May 24, 1880 — Article in Le Gaulois, February 25, 1884 [The Ravages of Age] — Article in Gil Blas, June 10, 1884 [Blessed Are the Content] — Letter to Jean Bourdeau, October 1889 — Letter to Dr. Grancher, 1891 — Telegram to Henry Cazalis, January 1891 — Letter to Henry Cazalis, January 1891 — Letter to Henry Cazalis, August/September 1891 CRITICISM Early Criticism — Henry James • [Maupassant and the Senses] — Jules Lemaître • [Maupassant's Misanthropy] — Arthur Symons • [Maupassant's Cynicism] — Joseph Conrad • [The Austerity of Maupassant's Talent] — Aaron Schaffer • [Maupassant's Technique and His Philosophy of Life] Modern Criticism General — David Coward • [Maupassant's Cruelty and Compassion] — Trevor A. Le V. Harris • [Maupassant's Journalism] Tales of French Life — Ann L. Murphy • Narration, the Maternal, and the Trap in Maupassant's — Mademoiselle Perle — Angela S. Moger • Narrative Structure in Maupassant: Frames of Desire Tales of War — Mary Donaldson-Evans • The Decline and Fall of Elisabeth Rousset: Text and Context in Maupassant's Boule de suif — Richard Bolster • Mademoiselle Fifi: An Unexpected Literary Source — Rachel Killick • Mock Heroics? Narrative Strategy in a Maupassant War Story Tales of the Supernatural — Roger L. Williams • [Maupassant's Pathological Themes] — Allan H. Pasco • The Evolution of Maupassant's Supernatural Stories — Ruth A. Hottell • The Delusory Dénouement and Other Narrative Strategies in Maupassant's Fantastic Tales — Katherine C. Kurk • Maupassant and the Divided Self: Qui Sait? Guy de Maupassant: A Chronology Selected Bibliography