A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2004
Summary
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes, and small-minded bourgeoisie, 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 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, Maupa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140448122 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140448128 |
| Author: | Guy de Maupassant, Siân Miles |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Guy de Maupassant
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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