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From the best-selling translator of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant’s best works for a new generation.
Widely considered to be the greatest short story writer in all of French literature, Guy de Maupassant helped define the modern short story, deeply influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel and O. Henry. Yet despite his mastery of the form, existing English translations render his prose in an archaic style. Convinced that this protege of Flaubert deserved to be modernised in the same way that Lydia Davis had brought Madame Bovary to life, Sandra Smith selected twenty-eight classic Maupassant short stories, written between 1880 and 1890, including “Le Horla” and “Boule de Suif”. Divided thematically into tales of French life, war and the supernatural, The Necklace and Other Stories promises to reintroduce Maupassant to twenty-first-century readers.
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Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid...
Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2016
This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty of Guy de Maupassant’s best short stories centring on war, the supernatural and French life, with an introduction and explanatory footnotes.
Also By: Sandra Smith
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A story of hope and inspiration that becomes torn in the hands of the cold and greedy, and of betrayal by the powerful over lesser ones.Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, E Book, 2021
“Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid...
