Sound a bit like a fairy tale? Well, yeah. One day, her loving-but-unglamorous clerk husband gives her a present: two tickets to a fancypants ball. "The Necklace" follows the life of a Parisian woman-Mathilde-who's solidly middle-class but dreams of immense wealth and romance. We mention that because "The Necklace" has the most famous of all of Maupassant's twist endings-which is also why it's his most famous short work. But when he did use it, he was good at it.and it was he, more than anyone else, who made the twist ending big. Guy didn't invent that either, and he certainly didn't use it in every one of his stories. Maupassant was also famous for his use of the twist endings. It helped that he wrote some three hundred short stories, all mostly between 18. Though he didn't invent the short story genre, he perfected it, popularized it, and greatly expanded his audience's understanding of what could be done with it. Some would even say that he is the father of the modern short story (or at least one of the fathers). Maupassant is the father of the French short story. So just who, you ask, is this guy, Guy, with the hard-to-pronounce French name? As it turns out, he's a big deal. Maupassant first published it (in French) on Februin a daily newspaper called Le Gaulois, where he worked as an editor. It's been called Madame Bovary in miniature, and tells the tale of a dissatisfied woman whose dreams of glamour end in disaster. " The Necklace" (in French, "La Parure") is perhaps the most famous short story by French author Guy de Maupassant.
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