by Guy de Maupassant · Magnard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782210760769
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«Boule de Suif» is a short novel by Guy de Maupassant published by Magnard in paperback, Classiques & Patrimoine collection (96 pages, in French).
During the Franco-Prussian War, ten travellers flee Rouen by stagecoach and are held at an inn by a Prussian officer, who demands that Boule de Suif, a courtesan, yield to his advances. Her refusal strains the group's coexistence and reveals bourgeois hypocrisy; the work consolidated Maupassant's fame.
Classiques & Patrimoine collection: school edition with complete text, art plate and colour chronological timeline, method and vocabulary boxes, and grouping of texts and images.
Edition designed for secondary school and vocational training students in France, with didactic supports for working on the text in class.
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.
