DE MAUPASSANT Brought "a ruthless freedom of treatment," as Mr. Monohan says in his introduction, to the coarser materials of life in transmuting them into fiction. He shocked even the Gallic temperament with his relentless presentation of the passions, hope and fears of the common men and women.

Incisive as the actions of an expert surgeon in probing into the miseries, lusts, loves and hates of mankind, he is withal full of pity for the multiple tragic phases of existence. In "Love and Other Stories" are contained many of his masterpieces.