Was it a Dream? Ghost Story Background
- andybarger
- 3 days ago
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Henri Guy de Maupassant
(1850-1893)
Frenchman, Henri Guy de Maupassant, is best known today for his short stories. He penned over 300 of them and they range from the romantic to the supernatural, though most the latter were merely fictions of the protagonists' minds.
Was It a Dream? is Maupassant's best ghost short story given its longing writing style and graveyard setting. The scary story is gothic and haunting and written in the shadow of Poe as it involves the longing for a lost love reminiscent of a common theme in Poe's poems and short stories.
Maupassant was influential in the last half of the nineteenth century. His stories even drew the attention of Leo Tolstoy who penned an essay called "The Works of Guy de Maupassant. Tolstoy's short stories continue to grow in popularity as do Maupassant's. He died at the young age of 43.
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