When I was 13 and had just arrived at a new school, our first set text was Cakes and Ale. It still baffles me even now that someone thought a bunch of 13-year-olds might enjoy Somerset Maugham's ...

David Hancock is home page editor for CBSNews.com. Remember Guy de Maupassant? He was a French writer who wrote that classic short story "The Necklace." You remember. The beautiful young wife is ...

His was a vile death, the madness caused by syphilis and its related physical horrors. It was an end that he knew he was facing and had tried to avoid by attempting suicide some 18 months earlier. But ...

The Universal Story Generator exists. He lived in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Sandra Smith’s fine new selection and translation of his stories has just been published. The ...

"He is a better writer than you think," Malcolm Lowry once said of Guy de Maupassant. This comment, made to David Markson, indicates the conundrum Maupassant presents to readers. A hugely influential ...

Few writers in the realm of literature managed to explore the uncharted regions of the human mind and the dark recesses of the heart as deeply as Guy de Maupassant did. The grim realities which de ...

We knowGuy de Maupassant (1850-93) as France’s greatest practitioner of the short story. He is as widely anthologized as O. Henry and is known, in the U.S. at least, for much the same thing: the ...

My wife saw a plate of cupcakes on Instagram and freaked out. It was our first week of social distancing, and to her, the little cakes, covered in promiscuous sprinkles, seemed far too close together ...

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