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Guy de Maupassant

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Pages: 256 (Paperback)

ISBN: 0486289184

Pub: Dover Publications Inc.

Pub date: 1996-07-24

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8575

Reader Reviews:

exellent (1/1 people found this helpful)

almost as good as chekhov with his short stories.
got into short stories through chekhov,
short stories were not really my thing, as i prefer novels, but im changing my views.
they dont get much better than this.
full of insight into the human condition and easy to read as well.

Strangely beautiful (16/16 people found this helpful)

Guy de Maupassant's strangely beautiful stories vary from uplifting explorations of moralistic living, through humorous parodies of the middle classes of 19th century France and their foolish attempts to better themselves, right through to the most critical revelations of the baseness of human existance, often revealed in the self-same stories. They are at once depressing and uplifting, cynical and idealistic, humorous and thought-provoking. The one thing that each story has in common is that it leaves the reader with a new insight into the human condition.

This collection contains:

Boule de Suif
Two Friends
Madame Tellier's Establishment
Madamoiselle Fifi
Clair de Lune
Miss Harriet
The Necklace
Madamoiselle Pearl
The Piece of String
Madame Husson's 'Rosier'
That Pig of a Morin
Useless Beauty
The Olive Orchard
A Sale
Love
Two Little Soldiers
Happiness

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