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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals nobility, civility and generosity, vanity, greed, and hypocrisy.
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A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories.
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes, and small-minded bourgeoisie, as well as 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 on the relationships between men and women, as in the poignant fantasy of A Parisian Affair, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants.
Through these relationships, Maupassant explores the dualistic nature of the human character. His stories reveal both nobility, civility, and generosity, and, in stories such as 'At Sea' and 'Boule de Suif', vanity, greed, and hypocrisy. Maupassant's stories repeatedly lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.
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ISBN: 9780140448122
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 June 2004
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Siân Miles
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 262g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was a literary disciple of Flaubert and one of the group of young Naturalistic writers that formed around Zola. Maupassant's contribution to the Naturalists collaborative collection of tales, Les Soirees de Medan, was 'Boule de suif', which remains one of the most well-known of the hundreds of stories he wrote over the course of his life and on which his literary reputation now rests. He also wrote six novels, including Bel-Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888). Sian Miles was born in Wales and educated there and in France where she lived for many years. She now teaches at Warwick University and is the author of an anthology of the writings of Simone Weil, and translations of George Sand's Marianne, Violet Trefusis's Echo, and has collaborated on Paul Valery's Cahiers/ Notebooks.
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