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A Parisian Affair (Penguin pocket classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Classics
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...' 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 h ...Show more
Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Fiction
Alien Hearts was the last novel that Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at 43. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Alien Hearts is the sto ...Show more
Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales of the Supernatural by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classics
From Thomas Hardy's unsettling 'The Withered Arm' to the physical terror of Mary Cholmondeley's 'Let Loose' with its crypt of skeletons, these 15 stories centre around the supernatural. Part of the Arcturus Gilded Classic series, this volume features work by Sheridan Le Fanu, MR James and Ambrose Bierce ...Show more
Like Death by Guy de Maupassant; Translated by Richard Howard
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Category: Fiction
An NYRB Classics Original. Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And tho ...Show more
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