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The Necklace and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Guy de Maupassant

Book ID
112050703
Publisher
Liveright
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
724 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781631490767

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✦ Synopsis

From the best-selling translator of Nemirovsky's Suite Fran Γ§aise comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant's best works for a new generation.

A Parisian civil servant turned protege of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style.

In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith--the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise --brings us twenty-eight of Maupassant's essential...

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