Selected Short Stories
Maupassant`s keenly observed short stories reveal a world of vice and virtue, passions and obsessions. Adultery, prostitution, the Franco - Prussian War, the pleasures of river and countryside, the cunning and greed of the Norman peasantry - these are familiar themes throughout his work, yet they are treated differently each time, producing stories of a dazzling originality. BOULE DE SUIF, Maupassant`s earliest triumph, and the opening story in this selection, exposes the smug complacency of a group of travellers towards the prostitute in their midst. THE PIECE OF STRING and THE DEVIL centre on avarice, while tales of honour such as A DEAL and MADAME HUSSON`S MAY KING, from a rich contrast to the gentle pathos of TWO FRIENDS. Masterly,...
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
