Guy de Maupassant

I read every day from my tablet, mostly things downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
Recently I downloaded Volume 2 of the Works of Guy de Maupassant. He was a prolific writer of short stories in the late 19th century.

In the volume I read, there is a uniform morbidness of the story lines, with a series of unhappy stories, typically involving men cheating on wives or vice versa, and consequently very unhappy marriages. There doesn't seem to be what we might consider a "normal" family life in any of them. If there is any positive thing about these stories is that they're mostly quite short.

De Maupassant himself had a troubled life, said to have taken hallucinogens quite a bit. He eventually developed tertiary syphilis (may have been congenital) and died in a lunatic asylum at age 42.

I don't plan to read any more of his works.