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Pierre & Jean (The French Classical Romances Series)
by MAUPASSANT, GUY DE
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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About This Item
USA: P.F.Collier & Son, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back 1902 Hardcover in Very Good Condition. The French Classical Romances Series. Editor-in-Chief Edmund Gosse. Introduction by Earl of Crewe. Portrait of the author and intro to his work included. Frontis and Other Portraits with Descriptive Notes by Octave Uzanne. Frontis tissue protected. Black cloth binding with blind stamped double border on front, two gilt outlined panels on spine with gilt lettering within-quite bright and clear. Fleur de lys in black to spine. Quite clean with light wear to corners and spine head and heel, hinge rubbed. Solid and tight sewn binding. Lime-green decorated title page. Former owner name on endpaper, front and back. Pages clean and unmarked, no tears, very slight toning. Guy de Maupassant's stories have a self-renewing vitality, assuming fresh force for each generation of readers with changing standards. A French short story writer and novelist of the 19the Century (1850-1893) and a sometimes member of the naturalist school (but mostly his own 'school' which is hard to classify), he chose his subjects chiefly from Norman peasant life, depicting the Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoise, and the fashionable life of Paris. 237 pages. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 1902, P.F.Collier & Son, New York, New York, USA
Synopsis
Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At his parents’ separation he stayed with his mother, who was a friend of Flaubert. As a young man he was lively and athletic, but the first symptoms of syphilis appeared in the late 1870s. By this time Maupassant had become Flaubert’s pupil in the art of prose. On the publication of the first short story to which he put his name, ‘Boule de suif’, he left his job in the civil service and his temporary alliance with the disciples of Zola at Médan, and devoted his energy to professional writing. In the next eleven years he published dozens of articles, nearly three hundred stories and six novels, the best known of which are A Woman’s Life , Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean . He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016074
- Title
- Pierre & Jean (The French Classical Romances Series)
- Author
- MAUPASSANT, GUY DE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- P.F.Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FRENCH CLASSICAL ROMANCES 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE
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