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Bel-Ami (Paperback)
Guy De Maupassant; Translated by Margaret Mauldon; Edited by Robert Lethbridge
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Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a
ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami"
by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle
Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the
background of the politics of the French colonization of North
Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably
close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of
contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis
of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative
tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its
identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons
why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as
well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a
novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and
notes of any edition currently available.
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other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Against Nature (Paperback)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Margaret Mauldon; Edited by Nicholas White
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`It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a
damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall
have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in
1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other.
Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it
focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive
neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the
vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high
taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural
delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its
appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe. This
new translation is supplemented by indispensable notes which
enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. 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.
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Persian Letters (Paperback)
Montesquieu; Translated by Margaret Mauldon; Edited by Andrew Kahn
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'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can
someone be Persian?' Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive
in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness
the hedonism and financial crash of the Regency. In their letters
home they report on visits to the theatre and scientific societies,
and observe the manners and flirtations of polite society, the
structures of power and the hypocrisy of religion. Irony and bitter
satire mark their comparison of East and West and their quest for
understanding. Unsettling news from Persia concerning the female
world of the harem intrudes on their new identities and provides a
suspenseful plot of erotic jealousy and passion. This pioneering
epistolary novel and work of travel-writing opened the world of the
West to its oriental visitors and the Orient to its Western
readers. This is the first English translation based on the
original text, revealing this lively work as Montesquieu first
intended. 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.
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