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El amor a la vida y a la juventud, melancólicamente representada por un viejo pintor que anhela volver vivir su amor por la condesa a través de su hija, es la historia que Guy de Maupassant relata en esta novela dura y trágica, que pareciera a simple vista, un relato de un amor malogrado, de esos que hay muchos. Pero no es así. Es el grito desesperado de un pobre viejo por volver a vivir sus años más fulgurantes, donde amó con más ardor y...
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"Guy de Maupassant - intégrale des romans" est une collection complète des romans de l'écrivain français Guy de Maupassant, publiée en un seul volume. Cette intégrale contient les œuvres les plus célèbres de l'auteur, comme "Bel-Ami", "Une vie" et "Pierre et Jean", ainsi que de nombreux autres romans moins connus.
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Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
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Guy de Maupassant is a famed French man of letters, who was able to feel himself a writer only for a decade. We offer you collected works by the great writer, into which his short stories and the novel "a Life" are included. The book is illustrated with canvases of Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Leloir, Arkhip Kuinji etc.
25) Bel-Ami
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Bel-Ami é um romance realista publicado em 1885 sob a forma de folhetim. O romance explora a sociedade e as atitudes em relação à riqueza, ao poder e ao oportunismo, retratando a ascensão social de Georges Duroy, homem ambicioso e sedutor, além de arrivista e oportunista, lançado ao topo sociedade parisiense graças à ajuda das amantes e do conluio entre a imprensa, as finanças e a política. Maupassant descreve as ligações existentes entre...
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In order to provide English learners with extensive reading pleasure, it consists of jewels that span the East and West, from literary works of famous writers such as Aesop's fables, Andersen, Shakespeare, and picture brothers to traditional fairy tales from all over the world.
27) Afloat
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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,...
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The novel tells the story of a woman without a heart, frigid and probably a lesbian. The hero, facing this fascinating and awesome being, takes another mistress, who can hardly satisfy him. He is devastated by this passionate love, violent, melancholic and cruel. This is a painful novel, written by an already sick writer, in which he says farewell to all women in his life, the ones who presented the desire, the torment, and the victims...
29) Pierre et Jean
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Une édition de référence de Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Jean, aussi blond que son frère était noir, aussi calme que son frère était emporté, aussi doux que son frère était rancunier, avait fait tranquillement son droit et venait d'obtenir son diplme de licencié en même temps que Pierre obtenait celui de docteur. [...]
Mais une vague jalousie, une de ces jalousies...
30) Boule de Suif
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This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's.
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The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Française and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent three years in military service in Algeria. After working for six months as a clerk in Paris, an encounter with his former comrade, Forestier, enables him to start a career as a journalist. From a reporter of minor events and soft news, he gradually climbs...
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Une édition de référence de La maison Tellier de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« On allait là, chaque soir, vers onze heures, comme au café, simplement.
Ils s'y retrouvaient à six ou huit, toujours les mêmes, non pas des noceurs, mais des hommes honorables, des commerçants, des jeunes gens de la ville ; et l'on prenait sa chartreuse en lutinant quelque peu les filles, ou bien on causait...
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When her son is killed in action during the Frano-Prussian war, Mother Sauvage, wracked with grief, exacts revenge for her son's death on the innocent young Prussian soldiers quartered with her. Guy de Maupassant's moving "Mother Sauvage" is the haunting story of the tragic choice made by a grieving mother. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating...
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Admired as "the greatest French short story writer," and emulated by Somerset Maugham and O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of plot construction and a keen recorder of life, translating his observations into finely crafted short stories that spoke entire volumes. This edition features twelve of de Maupassant's best-known stories, each reflecting the author's keen, compassionate insights into human behavior. Presented in a dual-language...
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Collected in this edition are forty stories by Guy de Maupassant, the 19th century French author considered by many as one of the masters of the modern short story. Maupassant was a prolific author during his short life, writing six novels, 300 short stories, and three travel books before dying at age 42. Maupassant was influenced by the style of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are noted for their efficient prose and his seemingly effortless ability...
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"Mademoiselle Fifi" is an absorbing novella by the worldwide famous French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893). A group of Prussian officers entertain themselves in an abandoned chateau of a French count. They are joined by some women of easy virtue, and then the events have an abrupt turn.
37) Eleven Stories
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Eleven classic short stories by the great French master of the form. Included are: "One Evening," "The Devil," "A Sister's Confession," "The Beggar," "The Drunkard," "The Adopted Son," "An Artifice," "My Uncle Sosthenes," "Father Milon," "The Piece of String," and "Solitude."
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Extrait: "Les premiers baigneurs, les matineux déjà sortis de l'eau se promenaient à pas lents, deux par deux ou solitaires, sous les grands arbres, le long du ruisseau qui descend des gorges d'Enval. D'autres arrivaient du village, et entraient dans l'établissement d'un air pressé."
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This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday, spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers,...
40) Une vie
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Une vie de Guy de Maupassant est un roman qui raconte le destin tragique de Jeanne, une jeune femme innocente et idéaliste qui se marie avec un homme médiocre et tombe peu à peu dans la désillusion et l'amertume. À travers une prose élégante et nuancée, Maupassant explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la trahison et de la condition féminine dans la société bourgeoise française du XIXe siècle. Avec une sensibilité délicate et une observation...