In one of his early short stories, a severed hand of an executed criminal causes its owner to go mad, and in another, a monkey at a typewriter types a manuscript about metempsychosis, again causing the owner to go mad. Besides "The Dead Hand" and "Doctor Heraclius Gloss", his first success was published in the collection Evenings at Medan and recounted a prostitute who offered her fellow passengers her food and slept with a Prussian officer to continue the journey, but is given a cold shoulder by the other passengers afterward. Another story has Mathilde working for ten years to replace a paste piece of jewelry she had thought real and lost. For 10 points, name this French writer, author of "Boule de Suife" and "The Necklace."
In one of his early short stories, a severed hand of an executed criminal causes its owner to go mad, and in another, a monkey at a typewriter types a manuscript about metempsychosis, again causing the owner to go mad. Besides "The Dead Hand" and "Doctor Heraclius Gloss", his first success was published in the collection Evenings at Medan and recounted a prostitute who offered her fellow passengers her food and slept with a Prussian officer to continue the journey, but is given a cold shoulder by the other passengers afterward. Another story has Mathilde working for ten years to replace a paste piece of jewelry she had thought real and lost. For 10 points, name this French writer, author of "Boule de Suife" and "The Necklace."
In one of his early short stories, a severed hand of an executed criminal causes its owner to go mad, and in another, a monkey at a typewriter types a manuscript about metempsychosis, again causing the owner to go mad.
Guy de Maupassant