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Excerpt from Une VieIT is so embarrassing to speak of the writers of one country to the readers of another that I sometimes won der at the complacency With which the delicate task is entered upon. These are cases in which the difficult art of criticism becomes doubly difficult, inasmuch as they compel the critic to forfeit What I may call his natural advantages. The first of these natural advantages is that those Who read him shall help him by...

A protégé of Flaubert, de Maupassant is remembered as a master of the short story form and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers who depicted human lives and destinies in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. This edition contains two short dramas in addition to a collection of his short stories.

Excerpt from OEuvres Posthumes, Vol. 2: Les Dimanches d'un Bourgeois de Paris, La Vie d'un Paysagiste, Etude sur Gustave Flaubert, L'Âme Étrangère, L'Angélus Comme employé d'abord, comme Français ensuite, comme homme d'ordre enfin, il se ralliait, par prin cipe, à tout gouvernement établi, étant fanatique du autre que celui des chefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

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Excerpt from Pierre Et Jean: The Two Brothers Madame Roland was now quite awake, and was looking with a softened expression at the wide stretch of cliffs and sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pres...

This selection of Maupassant's journalistic writings, edited in their original French version, encompasses articles on literary, artistic and social issues. Though many writers of the day, including Zola, Mirbeau, and Bourget, supplement their earnings by journalism, Maupassant was mindful of the warnings of his mentor Gustave Flaubert who insisted that journalism was an unworthy occupation for a self-respecting writer. But in 1880 Maupassant ...

In this collection of seven of his most popular stories each tale reflects both the author's intimate familiarity with Paris and the provinces in the Belle Epoque, as well as a nonjudgmental humanism that is one of Guy de Maupassant's most attractive writing qualities.

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Afloat, originally published as Sur l'eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly original style. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, na...

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