by Guy de Maupassant · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070409242
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«Contes de la bécasse» is the collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant published by Gallimard Editions in paperback (240 pages, in French).
The volume is framed by the custom that reigns at Baron des Ravots's table: at his hunting banquets, each guest tells a story after savoring a woodcock. The fifteen tales range from tender to cruel and portray the harsh peasant life, Norman customs, and bourgeois prejudices of 1870s France.
The work was originally published in 1883. This edition belongs to the Folio classique collection and includes a preface by Hubert Juin.
For readers of nineteenth-century French fiction and students of French who want to read a classic in the original version.
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.
