BOOKS by Guy de Maupassant

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1	Metamorphosis And Other Stories more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Necklace and Other Short Stories more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist A collection of nine of Maupassant's most famous tales, both brilliantly naturalistic and hallucinatory fantasy. Includes: "Ball of Fat", "The Necklace", "Piece of String", "Mme. Tellier's Establishment", "Mademoiselle Fifi", "Miss Harriet", "A Way to Wealth", "My Uncle Jules", and "The Horla". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
3	Bel Ami more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Georges Duroy comes to Paris as a provincial young man determined to become a great success in journalism. Maupassant shows the inevitable hypocrisy and corrupting effects of this quest and the shameless mediocrity that pervades the highest levels of Paris society, especially as Duroy's rise owes more to his looks and his ability to seduce the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Steven Jupiter (Translator) add to wishlist In this collection of seven of his most popular stories each tale reflects both the author's intimate familiarity with Paris and the provinces in the Belle Epoque, as well as a nonjudgmental humanism that is one of Guy de Maupassant's most attractive writing qualities. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $6.12! \| SVS
5	Pierre Et Jean more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist 'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| SVS
6	Afloat more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Douglas Parmee (Translator) add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $4.36! \| SVS
7	A Parisian Affair and Other Stories more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Sian Miles (Translator) add to wishlist 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 on the relationships between men and women, as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| SVS
8	Pierre Et Jean more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist 'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.31! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Une Vie more books like this by G De Maupassant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Necklace and Other Tales more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Adam Gopnik (Introduction by) add to wishlist From wicked and hilarious stories of the underside of Paris to bittersweet fables that puncture social pretension, de Maupassant's short works remain, for many, the best ever written. Gathered here, in an exhilarating new translation, are Maupassant's most famous and important tales. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| first editions \| SVS
11	My Uncle Jules and Other Stories/Mon Oncle Jules Et Autres Contes more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Admired and emulated by writers from Chekhov and Lawrence to Pirandello and Dos Passos, Maupassant is the master of the short-story form. Twelve critically acclaimed stories represent all of the author's major recurrent subjects and themes, both comic and tragic. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| SVS
12 view cover	Bel-Ami more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Georges Duroy comes to Paris as a provincial young man determined to become a great success in journalism. Maupassant shows the inevitable hypocrisy and corrupting effects of this quest and the shameless mediocrity that pervades the highest levels of Paris society, especially as Duroy's rise owes more to his looks and his ability to seduce the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Le Horla more books like this by G De Maupassant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89! \| first editions
14 view cover	Boule de suif et autres contes de la guerre by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $22.36!
15 view cover	A Life: The Humble Truth more books like this by Roger Pearson (Notes by), Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist 'every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $22.71!
16 view cover	Bel-Ami more books like this by Margaret Mauldon (Translator), Robert Lethbridge (Introduction by), Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Georges Duroy comes to Paris as a provincial young man determined to become a great success in journalism. Maupassant shows the inevitable hypocrisy and corrupting effects of this quest and the shameless mediocrity that pervades the highest levels of Paris society, especially as Duroy's rise owes more to his looks and his ability to seduce the ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $9.87! \| first editions
17	Boule de Suif more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Boule de Suif Et Autres Nouvelles by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Presents four short stories by Guy de Maupassant. see all copies from $5.14! new only from $7.71! \| SVS
19 view cover	The complete works of Guy de Maupassant more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIZI MATEBNITY T the thought of being a mother Jeanne felt no joy; she had had so much sorrow. Rosalie left the house. Jeanne awaited the advent of her child ... see all copies from $7.87! new only from $13.40! \| first editions
20 view cover	Le Horla (Dodo Press) more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), n Paris, est un crivain franais. Li Gustave Flaubert et mile Zola, il a marqu la littrature franaise par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitules contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Bcasse en ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.67! \| first editions
21 view cover	Best Short Stories more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist This collection reflects Maupassant's remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. "Boule de Suife", his most famous tale exposes the brutality and hypocrisy of war. His stories are linked by irony and the frailty of human nature. see all copies from $2.16! new only from $2.16!
22 view cover	A Woman's Life more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, H N P Sloman (Introduction by) add to wishlist In his first full-length novel, published in 1883, Maupassant follows the life of Jeanne, a member of the old Normandy gentry, from her departure from a convent in 1819 to middle age in 1855. In her family life she is surrounded on all sides by avarice, treachery, cruelty, and greed, as her husband turns out to be a lascivious boor and her son a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $194.84! \| first editions
23	Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
24 view cover	Butterball more books like this by Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator), Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Butterball is Maupassant's most critically acclaimed short story. Set during the Franco-Prussian war, it is a sympathetic and original portrayal of a prostitute's mistreatment at the hands of a cold-hearted bourgeoisie. When Butterball's carriage is halted by Prussian soldiers, they demand her sexual services in ransom. Her fellow passengers - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.45! \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected Short Stories: 4 more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Roger Colet (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of the author's most characteristic stories portrays life in 19th-century France. see all copies from $1.99! SVS

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