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Maupassant, Guy De - gē də mōpäsäNˈ, 1850–93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family. He worked in a government office at Paris and became known c.1880 as the most brilliant of the circle of Zola. He poured out a prodigious number of short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketches until 1891, when he went mad. He died

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The Art of French Fiction: Prevost, Stendhal, Zola, Maupassant, Gide, Mauriac, Proust » Read Now
by Martin Turnell. 394 pgs.

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A Day in the Country and Other Stories ("The Necklace" begins on p. 168) » Read Now
by Guy de Maupassant, David Coward. 312 pgs.

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This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the...
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This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands `like a lion in the path'.
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Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories » Read Now
by Guy de Maupassant, David Coward . 262 pgs.

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In addition to the title story, this volume includes Shepherd's Leap, Call it Madness?, Two Friends, At Sea, The Tribulations of Walter Schnaffs, Miss Harriet, A Duel, A Vendetta, The Model, Mother Savage, The Little Keg, The Dowry, The Bequest, Monsieur Parent, This Business of Latin, Madame...
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In addition to the title story, this volume includes Shepherd's Leap, Call it Madness?, Two Friends, At Sea, The Tribulations of Walter Schnaffs, Miss Harriet, A Duel, A Vendetta, The Model, Mother Savage, The Little Keg, The Dowry, The Bequest, Monsieur Parent, This Business of Latin, Madame Husson's May King, Hautot and Son, The Grove of Olives, and Who Can Tell?.
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A Life » Read Now
by Guy de Maupassant, Roger Pearson. 250 pgs.

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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and...
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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and disappointments, where fulfilment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare's gradual lapse into a state of disillusion. With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant's characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer's genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of his most compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness.
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Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant » Read Now
by Guy de Maupassant, Saxe Commins. 340 pgs.

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The Future of the Novel: Essays on the Art of Fiction ("Guy de Maupassant" begins on p. 193) » Read Now
by Leon Edel. 288 pgs.

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A History of the French Novel: To the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2 (Chap. XIII "Naturalism - The Goncourts, Zola, and Maupassant") » Read Now
by George Saintsbury. 588 pgs.

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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities (Chap. 7 "Fantastic and Decadent Floor-Plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde") » Read Now
by Janell Watson. 229 pgs.

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Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question...
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Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. She traces the phenomenon from Balzac, who introduced it to canonical literature, through Flaubert, Zola, Rachilde and Lorrain, to Proust. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
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Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction (Chap. 3 "Une Vie or the Name of the Mother") » Read Now
by Naomi Schor. 203 pgs.

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The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (Discussion of Guy de Maupassant begins on p. 62) » Read Now
by Frank O'Connor. 226 pgs.

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The Delusory Denouement and Other Strategies in Maupassant's Fantastic Tales, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Ruth A. Hottell. 14 pgs.

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Narrating the Gender Riddle: The Case of Maupassant's Yvette, M. Jocaste, and L'Ermite, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Philip G. Hadlock. 20 pgs.

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No Free Rides: Descriptive Frame as Ideology in Maupassant's L'Aveu, in Symposium » Read Now
by Sally Leabhart. 10 pgs.

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(Per)versions of Masculinity in Maupassant's la Mere Aux Monstres, in French Forum » Read Now
by Philip G. Hadlock. 21 pgs.

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East/West: Appropriation of Aspects of the Orient in Maupassant's Bel-Ami, in Nineteenth-Century French Studies » Read Now
by Susan M. Barrow. 13 pgs.

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Surface Structure and Symmetry in Maupassant: An Alternative View of Deux Amis, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Christopher J. Betts. 16 pgs.

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