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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

Happiness