by Guy de Maupassant · French and European Publications Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070411191
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«Boule de suif et autres nouvelles» is the volume of short stories by Guy de Maupassant in paperback (324 pages, in French).
The story that gives the volume its title is set during the Franco-Prussian War: a prostitute nicknamed Boule de suif travels by stagecoach with bourgeois people who depend on her. A German officer holds up the coach, and the woman's sacrifice exposes the group's hypocrisy. The volume also includes other stories by Maupassant.
The edition is by Louis Forestier and the volume is part of the Folio classique collection; the story «Boule de suif» was originally published in 1880.
For students of French and readers of nineteenth-century classics.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
