| Bel Ami; Or, the History of a Scoundrel (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): de Maupassant, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 140659265X ISBN-13: 9781406592658 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 176 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a prot g of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless d nouement. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, Boule de Suif, which Flaubert characterized it as "a masterpiece that will endure. " This was Maupassant's first piece of short fiction and was followed by short stories such as Deux Amis (1882) and Mademoiselle Fifi (1882). He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught, emerge changed - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. In his novels, he concentrated all his observations scattered in his short stories. His second novel was Bel-Ami; or, The History of a Scoundrel, which came out in 1885. His other works include: La Maison Tellier (1881), Une Vie (1883), Miss Harriet (1884), Mont-Oriol (1887), Pierre et Jean (1888), Fort Comme la Mort (1889) and Notre Coeur (1890). |