David Hancock is home page editor for CBSNews.com. Remember Guy de Maupassant? He was a French writer who wrote that classic short story "The Necklace." You remember. The beautiful young wife is ...

"This," she said. "I think you are ready for this." The book was a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, a name I had never heard of and couldn't pronounce. But yes, she was right.

Guy de Maupassant lived a short but highly productive life and his short stories and novels are still among the most widely read of French literature. One hundred and fifty years since his birth ...

Until they teach an unfortunate lesson about superficiality. Guy de Maupassant's short story, "The Necklace," is read by Fireside Al. Mathilde Loisel lives a simple life, but she dreams of a life ...

Having now read 98 of the 290 short stories written by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), from four English translation anthologies with many repeats between them, I am convinced that he was the best ...

But fate insisted on more suffering and the great French writer Guy de Maupassant, having slit his throat, failed to die. He struggled on and was reduced to crawling on all fours, convinced his ...

Starring Robin Laing and Gareth Thomas. Published in 1886, Guy de Maupassant's haunting short story is a wintry, snowbound tale of loneliness and dark imaginings. Dramatised by Sue Glover.

Guy de Maupassant’s first novel, about a 19th century French noblewoman named Jeanne Le Perthuis des Vauds, was published under the title “Une Vie,” which translates simply as “A Life.” ...

The writer in question is Guy de Maupassant, who’s second only to ... in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City.