This collection gathers more than a hundred stories of Guy de Maupassant scripts which could be defined as of mystery, terror, intrigue and, in all cases, the fruit of a fertile imagination. Thus, in this book are stories that describe a place insanity of one or more characters (Madame Hermet , hand stuffed , etc.), others with players who have dual personality ( The Horla , He , water ...); About a third group is the common denominator of death ( The drowned, ...); appearance there stories of murders ( The drunk , The Devil , Timbuktu ...); there are stories in which cruelty abounds ( The crazy , A vendetta, Uncle Judas ...), and could not miss the always incomprehensible or misunderstood suicides ( The night , About water ...)
Maupassant (1850-1893), son of a family of French gentry, was expelled at age 18 the seminar in which a student belonging to a libertine society.
studied law at the University of Paris and just after the race, thanks to his influential family, he joined the Navy Ministry, as he left when I was 30 years old to write.
During the next ten years Maupassant stories published one or two weekly magazines Gil Blas and Le Gaulois. In 1892 he was admitted to a clinic because she suffered mental disorders that initially seemed impossible to explain, but the source of her woes is uncover the following year, he died after suffering delusions progressive and general paralysis caused by syphilis, apparently, had purchased more than twenty years and was eroding his body.
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