La Maison Tellier (short story collection)
Title page for La Maison Tellier (1881) | |
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
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| Language | French |
| Genre | Short story |
| Published | 1881 |
| Publisher | Victor Havard, Paul Ollendorff |
| Publication place | France |
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La Maison Tellier is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant that includes the eponymous story. The book established Maupassant as a prominent French writer following the success of his first short story, "Boule de suif". Five of the eight stories in the collection had already been published in various magazines, like Revue politique et littéraire and La Vie Moderne, and three were originals.
The introduction includes a dedication that reads: "À Ivan Tourgueniev, hommage d'une affection et d'une grande admiration" (translated as "To Ivan Turgenev, an homage of affection and great admiration". The two writers had met in 1876 through a mutual friend, Gustave Flaubert.