A review by johnnyforeign
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

5.0

These stories are pretty much irresistible. Maupassant has the gift of setting his initial scenes very quickly and efficiently and then immediately plunging the reader into an almost invariably interesting tale. His stories are filled with keen insight into human nature and amusing plot twists. And his prose style--although I only know it in translation--is highly economic yet elegant. He is simply a pleasure to read. I'm not a writer, but, if I were to teach a course on how to write a good short story, I would point first to Maupassant, a true master.