Guy De Maupassant 

“Boule De Suif” (1880) is considered Guy de Maupassant’s best short story, and has been often adapted into film including: The Woman Disputed, Shanghai Express, Stagecoach, and Night Plane from Chungking. -The language of over one hundred years ago has been modernized. -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text. -Biographical information on Guy de Maupassant is included.

Boule De Suif (Ball of Fat)

Guy de Maupassant

Excerpt from Boule De Suif: And Other Stories After that a profound calm, the silence of terri hed suspense, fell over the city. Many a rotund bourgeois, emasculated by a purely commercial life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Boule De Suif (Ball of Fat)

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