The 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant is one of the few writers whose short stories -- witty, economical, elegant, yet straightforward in style -- are so forceful that his literary reputation can rest on them alone. He brought the form to a pitch of perfection that rivals such masters as Chekhov and Anderson.

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Sample the richness of Barnes & Noble Classics with this specially priced set of the world’s great novels -- timeless works like War and Peace and Don Quixote that epitomize the storyteller’s art and transport readers to richly imagined realms.

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