The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348477to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant Author: Guy De Maupassant Narrator: Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 1, 2018 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Henri RenŽ Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France. MaupassantÕs early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother HervŽ was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband.After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life. MaupassantÕs education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing.After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department. Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing. Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature. For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions.In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ÔBoule de SuifÕ, (translated as as ÔDumplingÕ, ÔButterballÕ, ÔBall of FatÕ, or ÔBall of LardÕ) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming. Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was Ôa masterpiece that will endure.Õ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique. This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career. With an audience now made available by the success of ÔBoule de SuifÕ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year. The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy.In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth. On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris. It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri RenŽ Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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