Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume X contains the following titles:

1. The Christening

2. The Farmer's Wife

3. The Devil

4. The Snipe

5. The Will

6. Walter Schnaff's Adventure

7. At Sea

8. Minuet

9. The Son

10. That Pig of a Morin

11. Saint Anthony

12. Lasting Love

13. Pierrot

14. A Normandy Joke

15. Father Matthew