The great short stories / Guy de Maupassant

By:

Maupassant, Guy de

Language: English Publication details: Chennai: Jaico, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 264 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9788179928349

Subject(s):

Short stories, French Translations into English

DDC classification:

843.8 MAU

Summary: Guy De Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philosophy, Maupassant can illuminate an entire code of values by means of a few telling details. He exposes the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns and depicts the petty limitations, the dissimulations and the vanities inherent at different levels of society. His stories are linked by a trenchant irony and by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature and the futility of so many lives.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
English Books	Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	843.8 MAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	701886
English Books	Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	843.8 MAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	701887

Guy De Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philosophy, Maupassant can illuminate an entire code of values by means of a few telling details. He exposes the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns and depicts the petty limitations, the dissimulations and the vanities inherent at different levels of society. His stories are linked by a trenchant irony and by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature and the futility of so many lives.

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