The Necklace And Other Short Stories

Author : Maupassant Guy de
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681952092
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necklace and Other Short Stories written by Maupassant Guy de and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opulence is sometimes deceiving“She removed the wraps from her shoulders before the glass, for a final view of herself in her glory. Suddenly she uttered a cry. Her necklace was not around...” - Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace Madame Mathilde Loisel is displeased: she cannot go to a fancy party because she doesn’t have anything to wear. Her husband tries to help her and gives her money to buy a new dress. She insists she also needs jewels so she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. After the party, Mathilde realizes that she lost the stunning necklace. ,This book has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Tutis Digital Pub
ISBN 13 : 9788132005995
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Harriet and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Tutis Digital Pub. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490761
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times written by Guy de Maupassant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a “lively, sparkling, and sharp-edged” (Arthur Goldhammer) new translation, Guy de Maupassant’s most beloved works are reintroduced to twenty-first-century readers. A Parisian civil servant turned protégé 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 stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In addition to her sparkling translation, Smith also imposes a structure that captures the full range of Maupassant's work. Dividing the collection into three sections that reflect his predominant themes—nineteenth-century French society, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and the supernatural—Smith creates "an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion" (Richard Howard). In "Tales of French Life," we see Maupassant explore the broad swath of French society, not just examining the lives of the affluent as was customary for writers in his day. In the title story of the collection, "The Necklace," Maupassant crafts a devastating portrait of misplaced ambition and ruin in the emerging middle class. The stories in "Tales of War" emerge from Maupassant’s own experiences in the devastating Franco-Prussian War and create a portrait of that disastrous conflict that few modern readers have ever encountered. This section features Maupassant's most famous novella, "Boule de Suif." The last section, "Tales of the Supernatural," delves into the occult and the bizarre. While certain critics may attribute some of these stories and morbid fascination as the product of the author's fevered mind and possible hallucinations induced by late-stage syphilis, they echo the gothic horror of Poe as well as anticipate the eerie fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The result takes readers from marriage, family, and the quotidian details of life to the disasters of war and nationalism, then to the gothic and beyond, allowing us to appreciate Maupassant in an idiom that matches our own times. The Necklace and Other Stories enables us to appreciate Maupassant as the progenitor of the modern short story and as a writer vastly ahead of his time.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606006
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Country and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands `like a lion in the path'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425029566
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Maupassant Short Stories, Volum written by Guy de Maupassant and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire McMillan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501165062
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necklace written by Claire McMillan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “glittering, Gatsby-esque” (Publishers Weekly) novel, two generations of Quincy women—a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer—are bound by a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace. Always the black sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when she’s summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after her great-aunt Loulou’s death. A cold reception from the family grows chillier when they learn Loulou has left Nell a fantastically valuable heirloom: an ornate necklace from India that Nell finds stashed in a Crown Royal whiskey bag in the back of a dresser. As predatory relatives circle and art experts begin to question the necklace’s provenance, Nell turns to the only person she thinks she can trust—the attractive and ambitious estate lawyer who definitely is not part of the old-money crowd. More than just a piece of jewelry, the necklace links Nell to a long-buried family secret involving Ambrose Quincy, who brought the necklace home from India in the 1920s as a dramatic gift for May, the woman he intended to marry. Upon his return, he discovered that May had married his brother Ethan, the “good” Quincy, devoted to their father. As a gesture of friendship, Ambrose gave May the necklace anyway. Crisp as a gin martini, fresh as a twist of lime, The Necklace is the charming and intoxicating story “written with wit, compassion, and a meticulous attention to period and cultural detail” (Kirkus Reviews) of long-simmering family resentments and a young woman who inherits a secret much more valuable than a legendary necklace.

Author : Guy Maupassant de
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386450227
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Best Of Guy De Maupassant written by Guy Maupassant de and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy de Maupassant was a prolific writer of short stories. He has articulately painted a fascinating picture of French life in the 19th century through his writings.He made his debut as a poet and later, went on write 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. Maupassant was a passionate lover of the sea and rivers, which accounts for the setting of much of his fiction and the prevalence in it of nautical imagery. He presents his characters dispassionately, foregoing any personal moral judgment on them but always noting the word, the gesture, or even the reticence that betrays each one's essential personality, all the while enhancing the effect by describing the physical and social background against which his characters move. Concision, vigour, and the most rigorous economy are the characteristics of his art. This collection includes Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece Boule de Suif and his other famous stories like The Necklace, A Piece of String, Mademoiselle Fifi, Miss Harriet, My Uncle Jules, Found on a Drowned Man and The Wreck. Embassy Books proudly presents this book as part of the Embassy Classics Series, which comprises of some of the finest literary works of great authors.

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857996098
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necklace, and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : White Pine Press
ISBN 13 : 9781877727733
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Necklace of Words written by Marjorie Agosín and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language gathering of the voices of Mexican women, most of whom began to publish in the 1960s when an emerging middle class supported a boom in Mexican letters. Well-known writers such as Elena Poniatowska and Rosario Castellanos, as well as writers just beginning to receive critical acclaim, such as Martha Cerda and Angeles Mastretta, tell diverse stories of Mexico's women from La Malinche up to present-day women trying to find their places in a country with a strong tradition of male domination. The book's sections focus on the history of Mexico, the arrival of the Europeans and mixing of races, the often confining spaces inhabited by women within the social fabric of their country, and the rich interior lives of women who live in these confined spaces.