Guy de Maupassant, France’s gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume IX contains the following titles:
- Toine
- Madame Husson’s “Rosier”
- The Adopted Son
- Coward
- Old Mongilet
- Moonlight
- The First Snowfall
- Sundays of a Bourgeois
- A Recollection
- Our Letters
- The Love of Long Ago
- Friend Joseph
- The Effeminates
- Old Amable
