Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Une Vie, and Other Stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantAlien Hearts
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174399
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising. Richard Howard’s new English translation of this complex and brooding novel—the first in more than a hundred years—reveals the final, unexpected flowering of a great French realist’s art.
Two Friends
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: Creative Education
ISBN: 9780886820039
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In the middle of war, two men go fishing in the river that runs through their village. They are captured by the enemy; mistaken for spies, and shot.
A Family Affair
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473360137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. After the split, Maupassant lived with his mother till he was thirteen, and inherited her love of classical literature. In 1880, Maupassant published his first - and, according to many, his best - short story, entitled 'Boule de Suif' ('Ball of Fat'). It was an instant success. He went on to be extremely prolific during the 1880s, working methodically to produce up to four volumes of short fiction every year. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
Boule de Suif
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN: 9781409953074
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 132
Book Description
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), ne a Paris, est un ecrivain francais. Lie a Gustave Flaubert et a Emile Zola, il a marque la litterature francaise par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitulees contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Becasse en 1883 ou Le Horla en 1887. Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force realiste, la presence importante du fantastique et par le pessimisme qui s'en degage le plus souvent mais aussi par la maitrise stylistique. La carriere litteraire de Guy de Maupassant se limite a une decennie - de 1880 a 1890. Reconnu de son vivant, Guy de Maupassant conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvele encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmees de ses oeuvres. Autres oeuvres comprennent: La Maison Tellier (1881), Monsieur Parent (1885), Fort Comme la Mort (1889), La Vie Errante (1890) et L'Inutile Beaute (1890).
The Life Work of Henri René Guy de Maupassant
Author: Guy de MaupassantShort Story Index
Author: The Clasp
Author: Sloane CrosleyPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny" Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives—Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid, selling his wares in Hollywood; and the Eeyore-esque Victor, just fired from a middling search engine. They soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Kezia loves Nathaniel. Nathaniel loves Nathaniel. In the midst of all this semi-merriment, Victor passes out in the mother of the groom's bedroom. He wakes to her jovially slapping him across the face. Instead of a scolding, she offers Victor a story she's never even told her son, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France. And so a madcap adventure is set into motion, one that leads Victor, Kezia, and Nathaniel from Miami to New York and L.A. to Paris and across France, until they converge at the estate of Guy de Maupassant, author of the classic short story "The Necklace." Heartfelt, suspenseful, and told with Sloane Crosley's inimitable spark and wit, The Clasp is a story of friends struggling to fit together now that their lives haven't gone as planned, of how to separate the real from the fake. Such a task might be possible when it comes to precious stones, but is far more difficult to pull off with humans.
Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0593320212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A beautiful hardcover selection of the best works by one of the greatest short story writers in world literature During his most productive decade, the 1880s, the French writer Guy de Maupassant wrote more than three hundred stories, notably including "The Necklace," "Boule de Suif," "The Horla," and "Mademoiselle Fifi." Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the stories selected here take us on a tour of the human experience—lust and love, revenge and ridicule, terror and madness. Many take place in the author's native Normandy, but the settings range farther abroad as well, from Brittany and Paris to Corsica and the Mediterranean coast, and as far as North Africa and India. Maupassant's remarkable psychological range and ability to evoke an entire world in a few pages have ensured that his stories have entertained generations of readers, and this volume of thirty-two of his most enduring masterpieces makes a perfect gift for any lover of classic fiction. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.