First Read of Maupassant Short Stories - Unimpressed

[Delta40]

For the few Chekhov short stories I've read, I found myself immediately submerged in the story and didn't leave till long after it had ended! Brilliant!

[Calidore]

The Horla is just up there with Turn of the Shrew or Black Cat as a brilliant psychological horror story. He may be very irregular, specially considering the ammount he wrote, but that is a rule for short story writers, they risk all in a few pages, so when it is unworth, just throw away. Maupassant is just one of those guys who can do it.

"The Horla" is a great one. I know I've read a few of his ghost stories in various collections and liked them.

I do actually own a one-volume collection of his stories, but I've never had the urge to sit down and read it, because just owning it makes me look smarter.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I do actually own a one-volume collection of his stories, but I've never had the urge to sit down and read it, because just owning it makes me look smarter.

[Snowqueen]

Une Vie is usually translated in the English version as 'A Woman's Life.'
It's a great story with, given all that has gone before, the best one-liner ending I can recall reading.

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[cafolini]

For the few Chekhov short stories I've read, I found myself immediately submerged in the story and didn't leave till long after it had ended! Brilliant!

Chekhov was a man of this earth. And very accurate in his descriptions of situations in Russian society. Few gave so much information through fiction.