The Best Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
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Binding: Paperback
224 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth
Language: English
Level: Advance
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Package Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounce
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed
His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary
Short Stories include:
- Boule de Suif
- Two Friends
- Madame Tellier’s Establishment
- Madamoiselle Fifi
- Clair de Lune
- Miss Harriet
- The Necklace
- Madamoiselle Pearl
- The Piece of String
- Madame Husson’s ‘Rosier’
- That Pig of a Morin
- Useless Beauty
- The Olive Orchard
- A Sale
- Love
- Two Little Soldiers
