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New edition features seven of the most popular tales of one of the greatest of all short-story writers. Included are "La Parure," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "La Maison Tellier," "La Ficelle," "Miss Harriet," "Boule de Suif" and "Le Horla," all reflecting Maupassant's intimate familiarity with Paris and the universality of his creations.
'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts
of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.' Maupassant
believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not
animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of
idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of
self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only
equalled by his contempt for human hypocrisy, and in these tales he
takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his
clinical pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a
warmer compassion for 'humanity bleeding'. Unsentimental but always
honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic
farce. This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his
bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and
most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and
it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story.
The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who
Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its
author into madness. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
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wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Often described as the father of the
modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely
associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is
his most famous story, 'Boule de Suif', as well as tales of love,
such as the brilliant 'Happiness', and the supernatural, like the
chilling 'The Horla'.
A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in
the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing
Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little
Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin
Classics, with books from around the world and across many
centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London
to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to
16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories
lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and
inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant's works available in
Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami
and Pierre and Jean.
Accompanying the text are essays, letters and newspaper articles on
the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, and critical
assessments from his time to our own, along with a chronology and
bibliography.
Widely considered to be the greatest short story writer in all of
French literature, Guy de Maupassant helped define the modern short
story, deeply influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel and
O. Henry. Yet despite his mastery of the form, existing English
translations render his prose in an archaic style. Convinced that
this protege of Flaubert deserved to be modernised in the same way
that Lydia Davis had brought Madame Bovary to life, Sandra Smith
selected twenty-eight classic Maupassant short stories, written
between 1880 and 1890, including "Le Horla" and "Boule de Suif".
Divided thematically into tales of French life, war and the
supernatural, The Necklace and Other Stories promises to
reintroduce Maupassant to twenty-first-century readers.
"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,
nature, and society all find a place in Maupassant's pages, which
are, in conception and in effect, so many reflections of the fluid
sea on which he finds himself-happily but forever
precariously-afloat. "Afloat" is thus a book that in both content
and form courts risk while setting out to chart the meaning, and
limits, of freedom, a book that makes itself up as it goes along
and in doing so proves as startling and compellingly vital as the
paintings of Maupassant's contemporaries van Gogh and Gauguin.
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'. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes,
and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French
Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories
in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in
French literature. They focus on the complexity of close
relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy "A
Parisian Affair" or the touchingly ironical "The Jewels"; between
siblings, as in "At Sea"; and between former partners, as in
"Encounter." They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and
generosity and also, as in "Boule de Suif," its greed and
hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant's stories lay humanity
bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.Sian Miles's vibrant new
translation is accompanied by an Introduction discussing
Maupassant's stpries as a reflection of the rapidly changing
beliefs of his society"The Necklace"--Maupassant's famous story not
included in the previous Penguin Classics edition--appears in this
volumeIncludes chronology, notes, and suggestions for further
reading
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