THE GREAT SHORT STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1939) [COLLECTOR'S EDITION]
Collector's Edition
Hardcover with gilt decorations.
Decorated boards.
Leather spine with cusps and gilt letters.
Very good condition.
POCKET BOOKS, INC
NEW YORK
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1939
With and introduction by Wallace Brockway.
Pages: 418
Dimensions: 17 x 12 cm
Contents:
- Love --
- Simon's papa --
- Rose --
- Affair of state --
- Diamond necklace --
- Clochette --
- Signal --
- Useless beauty --
- Normandy joke --
- Wolf --
- Duel --
- Madame Tellier's excursion --
- That pig of a Morin --
- Mad woman --
- Julie Romain --
- Venus of Braniza --
- Toine --
- Moonlight --
- Ball-of-fat --
- Specter --
- How he got the Legion of Honor --
- Piece of string --
- Country excursion --
- Strange fancy --
- Mademoiselle Fifi --
- Sale --
- One phase of love --
- Vendetta --
- My Uncle Sosthenes --
- Fishing excursion --
- Little cask --
- Story of a farm girl --
- Two little soldiers --
- Orderly --
- Dancers --
- False gems
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
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