Guy de Maupassant died insane due to venereal disease in 1893 at the young age of 43. He died but his great novels and particularly his short stories have endured. Anyone who loves fiction will enjoy this book including his great tales such as The Necklace and The Horla. (Amazon)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant, (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.