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Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
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I denna volym möter vi Guy de Maupassant som han ska läsas: mångsidig, orädd, mänsklig. Här finns den sociala realisten som blottar hyckleri och klassförakt; psykologen som borrar i begär, skam och självbedrägeri; den svartsynte ironikern som visar hur små omständigheter störtar hela liv; och den nästan övernaturliga berättaren som för in oro, hallucination och vansinne i vardagens mest realistiska miljöer. Maupassants noveller rör sig mellan soldatbaracker, salonger, landsvägskrogar, boudoirer, fältlasarett och små normandiska byar. En prostituerad blir moralisk huvudperson i ett sällskap som ser ner på henne. Ett till synes trivialt möte leder till ett förstört rykte och ett förstört liv. Ett lättvindigt beslut slår över i katastrof. Gång på gång visar Maupassant sin känsla för maktförhållanden: mellan könen, mellan klasserna, mellan den som berättar och den som bara blir berättad om. Denna utgåva samlar Maupassants mest lästa noveller, som »Fettpärlan«, »Mademoiselle Fifi«, »Ett Parisäventyr« och »Horla«, tillsammans med ett antal mindre kända berättelser. I översättning av Aslög Davidson, Victor Hoving, Hugo Hultenberg, Lennart Lagerwall, Birgit Lange, Sigfrid Siwertz och Hjalmar Söderberg, med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och kritikern Torbjörn Elensky.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT [1850–1893] räknas som den moderna novellkonstens fader. Han blev i ung ålder lärling till Gustave Flaubert, som var vän till familjen och genom sina kontakter kopplade ihop honom med andra stora författare som Émila Zola, Ivan Turgenjev och Henry James.
Pocket, Svenska, 2023
89 kr
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 tappningar och efter metoo är den aktuellare än någonsin. Huvudpersonen Fettpärlan är prostituerad och har hamnat i samma vagn som de respektabla som rynkar på näsan åt henne. Färden går genom ett ihållande snöoväder med det tysk-franska kriget 1870 som omgivande ram och oroande bakgrund. De respektabla i kupén uttrycker med blickar och små diskreta men ändå bitska kommentarer att de egentligen borde ha förvägrat Fettpärlan att åka med i denna fina vagn. Föga anar de vad som strax ska ske. Något som kan fördärva deras liv fullkomligt – om inte Fettpärlan kan tänka sig att rädda hela sällskapet. Det är ju inte så mycket begärt. Hon behöver ju bara bjuda ut sig ännu en gång... Novellen publicerades 1880 och innebar Maupassants stora genombrott. Över en natt blev han hela det litterära Frankrikes gunstling. Han var då trettio år. När han dog av syfilis tretton år senare hade han författat närmare trehundra noveller, sex romaner och hundratalet essäer och tidningsartiklar. Han räknas som Frankrikes genom tiderna främste novellförfattare. Maupassants läromästare var Gustave Flaubert, som var barndomsvän med hans mor. Det var Flaubert som uppmuntrade den spirande författaren att satsa på prosan i stället för poesin och blev ett slags ställföreträdande far och mentor. Han uppmanade adepten att träna observationsförmågan, grundligt studera karakteristiska drag och ingående beskriva människor, djur och företeelser. Därefter skärskådades och kritiserades dessa skrivövningar med vändande post eller under långa textsamtal om söndagarna. Till vår volym har vi valt sju av Maupassants allra bästa noveller, här i nyöversättning av Marie Berthelius som också skrivit det initierade efterordet. Följande noveller ingår: Fettpärlan Ett Parisäventyr Mademoiselle Fifi Hårnålen Ånger Historien om en bondpiga Olivlunden.
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I kärlekens namn har generationer av franska författare försökt fånga det ogripbara – känslan som förvandlar, förblindar och förtär. I asken L’Amour samlas fyra berättelser från fyra epoker i den franska litteraturen, där kärleken visar sig i sina mest mångskiftande former – som begär och besatthet, frihet och fångenskap, trohet och förlust. Från Maupassants precisa realism och Prousts blick för kärlekens illusioner, till de Beauvoirs intellektuella skärpa och Sagans lekfulla självironi – här möter vi fyra författare som, var och en på sitt sätt, blottlägger hjärtats mysterium. Fyra noveller om längtan, sanning och den envisa passion som får oss att älska, gång på gång. Asken innehåller fyra böcker: Guy de Maupassant – Pauls flickaMarcel Proust – Madame de Breyves melankoliska sommar Francoise Sagan – Vänstra ögonlocket Simone de Beauvoir – Marcelle"Sällan har den hopplösa kärleken och svartsjukans tvärmörker skildrats bättre. Tål att läsas gång på gång" Svenska Dagbladet om Guy de Maupssants Pauls flicka "Novellen är ett mästerstycke" Svenska Dagbladet om Simone de Beauvoir Marcelle Novellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.
Häftad, Franska, 1978
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Häftad, Svenska, 2015
239 kr
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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 hans verk en helt personlig karaktär. Trots den pessimistiska, genomskådande människouppfattning som kännetecknar hans noveller hör de tack vare humorn, den eleganta stilen och den spännande handlingen till det mest underhållande man kan läsa. Maupassant skrev inte mindre än 300 noveller och ett urval av dem är samlade här, dessutom skrev han ett antal romaner.
Häftad, Svenska, 2014
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Fransmannen Guy de Maupassant kom att bli en förnyare av novellkonsten. Han skrev direkta, naturalistiska berättelser, och hans produktiva författarskap över 300 noveller - innefattar bland annat den välkända berättelsen “Fettpärlan”. Pauls flicka hör till de så kallade roddarnovellerna och är ett 1800-talsdrama där vi får möta den unge Paul, vars fästmö lämnar honom för en annan kvinna. Novellix ger här ut novellen i Hjalmar Söderbergs tidlösa översättning.Långsamt och värdigt som drottningar skred de fram genom etablissemanget. De tycktes stolta över sin ryktbarhet, lyckliga över att vara föremål för allas blickar och de kände sig stå högt över allt detta patrask.Madeleine och hennes älskare såg dem närma sig och det lyste upp en gnista i flickans ögon.När de två främsta hade kommit i närheten av deras bord, ropade Madeleine: Pauline!Pauls flicka är Novellix nr 53. Novellix ger ut noveller; nyskrivet och klassiker, en novell per bok. Novellerna finns i tre format - tryckt bok, e-bok och ljudbok. Du kan även prenumerera på dem. Läs mer på novellix.se
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
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Guy de Maupassant 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. Stilistiskt var han sparsmakad och precis, tematiskt alltid präglad av en pessimistisk grundhållning. I hans skräcknoveller kommer fasan ofta inifrån och obehaget föds ur osäkerheten kring vad som är verkligt. Novellerna spänner över allt från klassiska spökhistorier och skräckromantik i den gotiska romanens efterföljd till fallbeskrivningar av enskilda galningar och vittnesmål från de mest ohyggliga mardrömstillstånd man kan tänka sig. I Mardrömmar presenteras ett urval av hans främsta skräcknoveller, bland annat den berömda Horla i två versioner. De är översatta av Hillevi Norburg som också skrivit förord, noter och kommentarer till utgåvan.
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Del 75 - British Library Tales of the Weird
Danse Macabre
Strange Stories from France
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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Spurned lovers return from the grave to haunt their partners, ghost ships materialise on the sea, a bird's eerie cry lures the unsuspecting to their deaths in a marsh... Welcome to the unsettling world of the French weird.From German-inspired gothic tales to chilling contes cruels, the stories in this anthology follow the evolution of uncanny fiction in France from the post-revolutionary turmoil of the early nineteenth century, through World War Two and into the early 2000s. They're tales influenced by, and often seeking to justify, civil and political unrest, populated by those forced to cope with constant change and rebellion, seeking some solace amongst the chaos.Featuring strange stories from Gallic literary heavyweights Charles Nodier, Theophile Gautier and Guy de Maupassant, as well as unsettling tales from voices less well known outside France, such as Nathalie Henneberg, Claude Seignolle and Christine Renard, Danse Macabre is a beguiling concoction of fractured melodies that moves to its own unique rhythm.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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These three short mystery tales from a collection of the greatest literary minds of all time - Conan Doyle, Poe and Maupassant - make for an enjoyable yet spine-chilling read. This volume includes Arthur Conan Doyle's great Sherlock Holmes tale "The Sign of the Four", Guy de Maupassant's "The Flayed Hand", and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Classics Illustrated tells these wonderful tales in colourful comic strip form, offering excellent introductions for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the stories.
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
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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 gapskrattade, andra vred sig i dödsryckningar; några var nakna, andra i rika dräkter. Halvnakna häxor red på bockskelett, fasliga gnomer hakade sig fast i väggarna; över deras huvudskallar skakade en vampyr sina fantastiska vingar. Hela denna vidunderliga värld av orörliga och döda skuggbilder såg ut att vilja skrika och flyga. Ihåliga munnar och tomma ögongropar brann som om blodflammor rann i deras ådror. "Nog!" skrek jag. "Nog, för guds skull!" 30 klassiska rysare samlas här i en antologi fullmatad med fasor, övernaturliga mysterier och gravlika stämningar. Skräckens klassiker samsas sida vid sida med nyupptäckta häxmästare. Och inga av dessa noveller har översatts till svenska i modern tid -- allt kommer att vara lika fräscht och nytt för läsaren som en exklusiv, vällagrad mögelost!
Häftad, Svenska, 2018
239 kr
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Huset Tellier är en av Maupassants mest kända novellsamlingar. Här finns det sluga bönder och aspirerande, mediokra borgarbrackor i en hänsynslös värld. Det skildras med en ironisk skärpa, samtidigt som man kan uppfatta en viss medkänsla för de utsatta. -
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
214 kr
Tillfälligt slut
På grönskande gräsmattor, bland blommor och fåglar, rör sig människorna runt, runt varandra likt trollsländor – med en djup önskan att nå fram till den andre.
Asken I sommartid rymmer fyra varma berättelser skrivna av fyra älskade författare: Virginia Woolf, Anton Tjechov, Katherine Mansfield och Guy de Maupassant. Här finns kärlek, fest och humor – men också ett omskakande möte med döden och viktiga lärdomar – allt inramat av prunkande grönska.
Asken innehåller fyra böcker:
Virginia Woolf – Kew Gardens
Anton Tjechov – På sommarnöje
Guy de Maupassant – Frukost i det gröna
Katherine Mansfield – Trädgårdsfesten
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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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 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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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 of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant's works available in Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean.
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Engelska, 201516 kr
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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 of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant's works available in Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean.
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Engelska, 200493 kr
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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 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
352 kr
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Engelska, 1999102 kr
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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 storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant''s six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman''s life of failure and disappointments, where fulfilment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare''s gradual lapse into a state of disillusion. With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant''s characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer''s genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of his most compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness. 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.
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Engelska, 2001102 kr
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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 fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporaryjournalism.Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant''s greatest achievement as a novelist.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.
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Engelska, 1998102 kr
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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 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 humancondition, 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.
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PDF, Engelska, 200191 kr
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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 development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother''s former lover.Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant''s achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.
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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 development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother''s former lover.Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant''s achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
91 kr
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'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.'Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his clinical pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for 'humanity bleeding'. Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce. 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 short story. The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.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.
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PDF, Engelska, 202480 kr
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''It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.''Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant''s disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his clinical pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for ''humanity bleeding''. Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce. 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 short story. The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.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.
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Engelska, 202480 kr
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''It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.''Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant''s disgust with creation was only equalled by his contempt for human hypocrisy, and in these tales he takes a scalpel to our illusions and cuts to the bone. But his clinical pessimism is redeemed by a sense of the absurd and a warmer compassion for ''humanity bleeding''. Unsentimental but always honest, he persuades us that life is an incomprehensible, cosmic farce. 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 short story. The Little Keg is rich in comic invention, while the disturbing Who Can Tell? draws its power from the strange forces which drove its author into madness.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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
126 kr
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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 fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist. 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
114 kr
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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 storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, A Life (Une Vie) (1883) in which he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman's life of failure and disappointments, where fulfilment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare's gradual lapse into a state of disillusion. With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant's characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer's genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of his most compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness. 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
114 kr
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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 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
135 kr
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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 Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, 'Boule de Suif', as well as tales of love, such as the brilliant 'Happiness', and the supernatural, like the chilling 'The Horla'.
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Engelska, 2023104 kr
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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 Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, 'Boule de Suif', as well as tales of love, such as the brilliant 'Happiness', and the supernatural, like the chilling 'The Horla'.