Guy De Maupassant - Böcker

Novellsamlingen Fettpärlan av Guy de Maupassant i nyöversättning av Marie Berthelius som också skrivit det initierade efterordet. Berättelsen om Fettpärlan har kallats en av världens bästa noveller, blivit filmatiserad otaliga gånger i vitt skilda...

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Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) kallas ofta den franska novellkonstens fader och mästare. Under sina blott tio år som verksam författare skrev han runt 300 noveller och därtill sex romaner; men även lyrik, dramatik och hundratalet essäer och tidningsa...

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Nine memorable classics: "Ball of Fat," "The Necklace," "A Piece of String," "Mme. Tellier's Establishment," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "Miss Harriet," "A Way to Wealth," "My Unc...

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A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep with their officer. When Boule de Suif ...

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Bel-Ami utspelas i 1880-talets glada och syndfulla Paris. Georges Duroy är en ung, uppblåst, hänsynslös journalist och kvinnotjusare. Han utnyttjar alla medel, inte minst rika änkor, för sin klassresa till att bli en av stadens ledande män. Guy de...

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"När Jeanne hade låst sina koffertar gick hon fram till fönstret, det regnade fortfarande." Ett liv (1883) rör ett kvinnoöde bland många liknande. Kort lycka och bittra besvikelser är ämnet för denna berömda Maupassantroman. Den unga för...

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"Finns det en mer våldsam känsla hos kvinnan än nyfikenheten?" Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) räknas som en av novellkonstens stora mästare. Hans flödande rika, ursprungliga berättartalang, som har få motstycken i världslitteraturen, ger ...

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Svartsjuka, tjugotalets Paris, krossade hjärtan och dekadent kärlek - här hittar du helt andra historier av författarna bakom klassiska franska verk som Det andra könet , Madame Bovary och På spaning efter den tid som flytt . Asken innehåller fyra...

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Han förde mig in i den gröna vagnen. "Ni kommer att få se besynnerliga saker", sade den gamle. Vid dessa ord upplystes rummet av ett klart men blodigt sken. Stödda mot väggarna stod hela rader av lik, gula, hemska, vanställda. Några gaps...

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A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range an...

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The first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) is the story of Jeanne de Lamare, the only daughter of wealthy Norman aristocrats whose life is beset by treachery and disillusion.

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Huset Tellier är vid sidan av Fettpärlan en av Guy de Maupassants mest kända noveller, och har fått ge namn åt denna novellsamling som utkom 1881. Handlingen i novellerna utspelar sig antingen i författarens barndomsprovins Normandie eller i Paris...

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The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jean,...

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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 sho...

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A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

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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 sho...

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`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storytelle...

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'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul SartreMaupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in...

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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 disintegr...

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'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry JamesHenry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the developm...

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'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry JamesHenry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the developm...

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This translation of 20 tales seeks to show Maupassant at his best. It features some of his grimmest and his most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, but it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the short story.

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This translation of twenty tales shows Maupassant at his bitter, bawdy, chilling best. It features some of his grimmest and most famous stories such as A Vendetta and The Grove of Olives, and it also reflects both his moods and his mastery of the ...

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Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man making it to the top in fin-de-sicle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization...

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This selection of twenty-seven stories in a lively new translation shows Maupassant as 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 Horl...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin ...

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Class...

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"Bel Ami, "written at the height of Guy de Maupassant's powers, is a classic novel of seduction, intrigue, and ruthless social climbing in belle epoque Paris. Georges Duroy is a down-and-out journalist from a humble background who engine...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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