Necklace and Other Stories De Maupassant Guy
Necklace and Other Stories De Maupassant Guy 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…
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Necklace and Other Stories De Maupassant Guy
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. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O.
Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style.In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith--the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's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 stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In