"Boule de Suif" is a very famous short story by the French author Guy de Maupassant, and has gained worldwide recognition for its setting in the Franco-Prussian War. Many say that it is his most popular work, leading to the reasoning for this book of short stories to have it as the 'cover story'. It is thought that Maupassant has written up to or over 400 short stories in his career, a sampling of those starting with "A" including, "A Country Excursion", "A Coup d'État ", "A Coward", "A Cremation", "Abandoned", "The Accent", "After", "Alexandre", "All Over", "Allouma", "Ampanget", "An Old Man", "An Adventure in Paris", and "An Artifice At Sea".
Born in 1850 in France, Guy de Maupassant is a famous French author and short story writer. Dying at only the age of 42, Maupassant is best known for the story featured in this book, "Boule de Suif". The style of his stories have been deemed by many "efficient" because of their swift endings that seem to wrap up everything that happened. Novels, however, were not his fancy; he only published six of them. Considered "The Father of Modern Short Stories," Maupassant is for sure a name to remember in literary textbooks.
