Author: Guy de Maupassant
Year: 1884
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Classic, Short Stories
Culture: France
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9780375757174
0375757171 |
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Includes The Necklace, Butterball, The Tellier House, On the Water, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mask, The Inn, A Day in the Country, The Hand, The Jewels, The Model, The Entity (The Horla).
These stories - poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness - display the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant's remarkable range, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages.
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