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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
Category: 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 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 & Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classics
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.
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
Category: Classics | 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
Like Death by Guy de Maupassant; Translated by Richard Howard
Category: Fiction
An NYRB Classics Original. Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And tho ...Show more
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - A New Selection of the Sharp, Sensitive and Much-Revered Stories by Guy de Maupassant; Elsie Martindale Hueffer (Translator); Ada Galsworthy (Translator); Robert Hampson (Contribution by); Helen Chambers (Contribution by); Joseph Conrad (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions
A priest receives an unexpected visitor from his past. A triumphant celebration ends in murder. A doctor tells of an unrequited love that only ended with death. Maupassant's direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist's primary duty was faithfulness to his own perception ...Show more
Moonlight by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithOften described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associat ...Show more
Pierre et Jean (English) by Guy de Maupassant; Julie Mead (Translator); Robert Lethbridge
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
- La bibliographie de l'auteur - Enum ration de ses principales oeuvres - M. Roland, ancien bijoutier parisien, a d m nag d s qu'il a pu avec sa femme au Havre, par amour inconditionnel de la mer. Apr s leurs tudes Paris, o Pierre - l'a n - a successivement essay plusieurs cursus, avant d'obtenir la m ...Show more
SP The Necklace and Other Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift S.
Nine memorable classics: "Ball of Fat," "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Uncle Jules," and "The Horla."