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A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's ...Show more
A Life - The Humble Truth by Guy de Maupassant; Roger Pearson (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life ha ...Show more
A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly h ...Show more
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus o ...Show more
Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Fiction
Alien Hearts was the last novel that Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at 43. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Alien Hearts is the sto ...Show more
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Fiction
Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, ...Show more
Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist ...Show more
Bel Ami & Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Wordsworth
The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.
Best Short Stories (A Dual-Language Book French/English) by Guy de Maupassant; Steven Jupiter (Translator)
Category: Classic | Series: Dover Dual Language French Ser.
In his stories Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) blended brilliantly realistic depictions of characters moving against carefully described backgrounds with an objectivity and universality that has earned him a place among the finest of all short-story writers. In this collection of seven of his most popular ...Show more
Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
Pendant plusieurs jours de suite des lambeaux d'arm e en d route avaient travers la ville. Ce n' tait point de la troupe, mais des hordes d band es.
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the w ...Show more
Ghost Stories - Chilling Tales of the Supernatural by Guy de Maupassant; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Edward Frederic Benson; William Hope Hodgson; Montague Rhodes James
Category: Horror
This handsome anthology brings together some of the greatest ghost stories ever written, presented in a beautiful hardback edition with silver blocking on the cover and wonderfully gothic endpaper illustrations. Featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts, these tale ...Show more