The Works of Guy De Maupassant - Volume II - Monsieur Parent and Other Stories

The Works of Guy De Maupassant - Volume II - Monsieur Parent and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473349249

"Madame Tellier's Establishment" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. The story concerns the inhabitants of a provincial brothel who all depart on a train journey to witness the confirmation ceremony of the madame's niece. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 - 1893) was a French writer. He is considered a master of the story form, writing 300 during his life. He also produced six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. Other notable works by this author include: "Bel-Ami" (1885), "Pierre et Jean" (1888), and "Mademoiselle Fifi" (1883). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141915293

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 in the poignant fantasy of 'A Parisian Affair', between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. Through these relationships, Maupassant explores the dualistic nature of the human character and his stories reveal both nobility, civility and generosity, and, in stories such as 'At Sea' and 'Boule de Suif', vanity, greed and hypocrisy. Maupassant's stories repeatedly lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.