A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories
Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was a literary disciple of Flaubert and
one of the group of young Naturalistic writers that formed around
Zola. Maupassant's contribution to the Naturalists collaborative
collection of tales, Les Soirees de Medan, was 'Boule de suif',
which remains one of the most well-known of the hundreds of stories
he wrote over the course of his life and on which his literary
reputation now rests. He also wrote six novels, including Bel-Ami
(1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888).
Sian Miles was born in Wales and educated there and in France where
she lived for many years. She now teaches at Warwick University and
is the author of an anthology of the writings of Simone Weil, and
translations of George Sand's Marianne, Violet Trefusis's Echo, and
has collaborated on Paul Valery's Cahiers/ Notebooks.
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