by Guy de Maupassant · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253006770
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«Contes de la bécasse» is the short story collection by Guy de Maupassant, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (157 pages, in French).
Sixteen stories set almost all in rural Normandy. In the frame tale, an old hunter invites his friends each autumn to a woodcock, and the guest chosen by lot must tell a story. Peasants, hunters, aristocrats and fishermen are portrayed in their daily lives.
Volume 1539 of Le Livre de Poche, with a preface by Jacques Chessex and notes by Louis Forestier. Work originally published in 1883.
For students of French and readers of classic literature who want to get started with the nineteenth-century French short story.
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.
