by Guy de Maupassant · Hachette · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782011691798
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«Pierre et Jean» is the novel by Guy de Maupassant published by Hachette in paperback (255 pages, in French).
When Jean receives an unexpected inheritance from a family friend, his brother Pierre begins to wonder why the friend chose him as heir. The search for truth pits the two brothers against each other and cracks the bourgeois facade, with Maupassant's characteristic irony.
The novel was originally published in 1888; this Hachette edition belongs to the Classiques Hachette collection, offers the complete text and includes the essay «Le Roman», notes and didactic material.
With its notes, questionnaires and didactic orientation, it is an edition designed for literature students and school reading in France.
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.
