by Guy de Maupassant · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253046547
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«Contes du jour et de la nuit» is the short story collection by Guy de Maupassant, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Collection of Maupassant stories featuring parricides, drunkards, cowards, petty bourgeois and cruel peasants, set against the Franco-Prussian War and class differences. Brief, concise tales portraying nineteenth-century French society, including stories such as «La Parure», «Une vendetta» and «Le crime au père Boniface».
Published in 1988 in the «Classiques» collection of Le Livre de Poche, in the original French language.
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.
