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(0)Guy De Maupassant
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English
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An ambitious man ascends the ranks of French society through a series of duplicitous affairs in this nineteenth–century novel of greed, sex, and power.
A journalist and former cavalry officer in French Algeria, Georges Duroy is young, handsome, and ruthlessly cunning. Born to humble parents in Normandy, Duroy acquires inside knowledge of Parisian society and politics through his friendship with Madeleine Forestier, the wife
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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A widower and a loving father of three girls, old Taille is described as a model workman. He provides for his family with honest labour and enjoys a good reputation until his oldest daughter, Anna, runs away and mysteriously turns into one of the richest people in town. Can a family connection once broken be restored? Can money buy happiness and respect? Discover this complex family drama by the Master of the short story, Guy de Maupassant.-
3) Coward
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Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Wealth, wit, natural grace, and an air of nobility makes the perfect 19th century French gentleman. Add a certain amount of pride and you have Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles, not by chance called Handsome Signoles. His flawless life changes when he challenges a man to a duel and realises that some virtues can be found beyond one's appearance. Explore the inner battle between a man and his deepest fears told by the master of the short story, Guy...
4) In the Wood
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Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"In the Wood" is a romantic and humorous story about two middle-aged lovers who decide to revisit the spot of their first acquaintance in order to rekindle their love life. Little do they know that a policeman is about to ruin their frivolous decision. Maupassant's knowledge of the human soul and his elegant handling of natural surroundings create a vivid atmosphere where love and memories create a symphony that echoes in the hearts of everyone involved....
6) Afloat
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Language
English
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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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Russian
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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.
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English
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Bel Ami (The History of a Scoundrel): The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses. 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.
Pierre et Jean is a naturalist or...
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Language
Français
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"Conte de Noël" de Guy de Maupassant est une œuvre magistrale qui capture l'essence même de la période des fêtes avec une touche de réalisme poignant et une profonde sensibilité humaine. Dans ce récit, Maupassant, connu pour son habileté à dépeindre les complexités de l'âme humaine, explore les thèmes de la compassion, de l'amour et de la perte durant la saison de Noël, une période o les émotions sont souvent exacerbées. Ce conte,...
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English
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Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouements (outcomes).
Content:
Mademoiselle Fifi
Ball of Fat / Boule de Suif
An Adventure in Paris / Une Aventure Parisienne
Madame Baptiste
Rust / La Rouille
Marroca / Marroca
The...
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Language
Russian
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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.
12) Sämtliche Romane
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Inhalt:
Ein Menschenleben
Der Liebling (Bel Ami) (Übersetzung von Georg Freiherrn von Ompteda)
Bel Ami (Übersetzung von Fürst N. Obolensky)
Mont Oriol
Hans und Peter / Pierre et Jean (Übersetzung von Georg Freiherrn von Ompteda)
Zwei Brüder (Pierre et Jean)
Stark wie der Tod
Unser Herz
Ein Menschenleben (Une vie) ist der erste Roman von Guy de Maupassant. Jeanne, die Tochter des Barons Simon-Jacques und der Baronin Adélaïde, ist eine...
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English
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Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Works of Guy de Maupassant by Leo Tolstoy
Novels:
A Life
Bel-Ami (The History of a Scoundrel)
Mont Oriol
Notre Coeur - A Woman's Pastime
Pierre and Jean
Strong as Death
Novellas and Short Stories:
Boul De Suif
Simon's Papa
Suicides
On The River
Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
Two Friends
Father Milon
A Coup D"Etat
The Horrible
Madame Parisse
An Adventure in Paris
The Awakening
Crash
My Landlady
The Horla
Our Letters
Profitable...
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Anna Ruggieri
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
- This edition is unique;
- The translation is completely original and was carried out for the Ale. Mar. SAS;
- All rights reserved.
A master of detailing social behaviour, Guy De Maupassant's Strong As Death tells the story of Olivier Bertin, and his mistress Comtesse de Guilleroy. Her daughter comes to Paris to marry some Marquis, and Bertin falls for her. The scoundrel.
- The translation is completely original and was carried out for the Ale. Mar. SAS;
- All rights reserved.
A master of detailing social behaviour, Guy De Maupassant's Strong As Death tells the story of Olivier Bertin, and his mistress Comtesse de Guilleroy. Her daughter comes to Paris to marry some Marquis, and Bertin falls for her. The scoundrel.
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Can a single evening be perfect? It can if you ask a couple in love. The short story "On a Spring Evening" by Guy de Maupassant, who is widely considered the master of French Naturalism, is a picturesque tale of love set in the 19th century. Cousins Jeanne and Jacques are set to be married, much to the glee of their parents. As they take a stroll on a spring evening, their emotions seem to get the best of them. The story paints a vivid picture of...
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Night: A Nightmare" depicts a vivid portrayal of the streets of Paris. Our narrator roams the streets of the city after hours, embracing and explaining his love of night as he goes. Yet this time, the night takes a more a menacing turn and soon becomes a living nightmare for him. Maupassant 's story plunges into the darker places of the human psyche with colorful storytelling, taking the reader on a nocturnal and...
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Series
Language
Español
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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.
En este volumen traemos a Guy de Maupassant, un escritor francés, autor principalmente de cuentos, aunque escribió seis novelas. Su prosa tiene la virtud de ser sencilla pero directa, sin artificios. Sus historias, variopintas, transmiten con una fidelidad absoluta la sociedad de su época. Pero lo que más lo caracteriza es lo impersonal de...
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Publisher
Leone Editore
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Rose e Jacques lavorano nella fattoria di Vallin, hanno una relazione ma subito lei rimane incinta. Jacques, dopo aver promesso di sposarla, scappa via. Rose dà alla luce un maschietto che affida ai vicini di sua madre. Comincia a lavorare duramente per dimenticare, ma Vallin la convince a sposarlo. Gli anni passano ma il padrone insiste per avere un figlio, ascoltano molti consigli e metodi per ottenerne uno, ma niente funziona. La tristezza...
20) Two Friends
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It's 1870 and the Siege of Paris is in full swing, where the French-Prussian war has brought daily life to a halt. Wearied, starving, and strung out on absinthe, two men meet by chance at their favourite fishing spot. "Two Friends" follows Morissot and Sauvage as they make their way into no man's land and drink away the miseries of the war. A powerful short story that extolls the virtues of French patriotism and dramatises the cruelties of war. Maupassant's...