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A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus o ...Show more
Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist ...Show more
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
It is 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 w ...Show more
Like Death by Guy de Maupassant; Translated by Richard Howard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An NYRB Classics Original. Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And tho ...Show more
Moonlight by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics
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-SmithOften described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associat ...Show more
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