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Selected Short Stories

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Guy de Maupassant was born in Chateau de Miromesnil, Tourbille-sur-Arques, Seine-Inferiere, France, On August 5, 1850, and died in Paris on July 6, 1893. His maternal grandfather, Paul Le Poittevin, was Gustave Flaubert's godfather, and his mother, Laure, and his uncle, Alfred, had been childhood playmates of Flaubert and his sister. rnMaupassant grew up in his native Normandy, a rebellious student whose athletic constitution demanded open air and strenuous exercise. Those were afforded in abundance through vacations at Etretat on the seashore. The gift of a photographic memory enabled him to gather a storehouse of information about the country and its inhabitants, so that, with him, the Norman inspiration was to become basic in every sense, both as an unending supply of subject matter and as a pattern, so to speak, for the subsequent study of othe milieux, such as the army in which he served during the Franco-Prussian War, the little world of government clerical workers which he joined for a period of eight years and the salons which he frequented in later life. rnThere are 23 short stories here in this book. Those are selected short stories that bring us the problems, conflicts, and values of the modern world.

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820 MAU s

Publisher

New York : Grolier., 1958

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xiv; p.314; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

717200019

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English Literatures/Kesusastraan Inggris

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Cet.1

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Short Stories

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