by Guy de Maupassant · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080720047
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«Le papa de Simon et autres nouvelles» is Guy de Maupassant's collection of short stories, published by Flammarion in paperback (161 pages, in French).
The title story presents Simon, a fatherless boy who suffers his classmates' mockery and whose encounter with the blacksmith Philippe shapes his story. The other tales portray rural and bourgeois nineteenth-century France with Maupassant's ironic, realist eye.
Part of Flammarion's Étonnants Classiques collection, it includes a presentation and game-dossier by Nadine Sahat and reproduces the complete text.
Useful for students of French and for readers who want to approach French classics in their original 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.
