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Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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ISBN: 0393923274
Author: de Maupassant, Guy
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Smith successfully captures Maupassants depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.-Library Journal The Norton Critical Edition includes:- Thirty of Maupassants best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith.- An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge.- Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassants writing, including politics, war, love,despair, and the supernatural.- Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassants time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, MaryDonaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk.- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
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