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Maupassant, Selected Short Stories

Submitted by on March 5, 2007 – 2:23 AMNo Comment

The editor made a big thing out of not including “The Necklace,” which I think is a mistake; it’s probably his strongest story.   These are good, but it took me a while to get into each one, and while his descriptions are really fabulous, there’s something about Victorian prose sometimes that’s just like, look, you don’t have to get to the point right this second but maybe giving us some intimation of the point inside of five pages would be good.   Anyway, if I hadn’t had a plane ride I don’t know that I’d have stuck with it; it’s good, but it’s hard to get into.   (3/2/05)

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