by Guy de Maupassant · Bordas Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782047353707
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«L'Enfant et autres histoires de famille» is the short story anthology by Guy de Maupassant, published by Bordas Editions in paperback (247 pages, in French).
Ten short stories by Guy de Maupassant gathered around childhood and family in the 19th century. The volume includes pieces such as «Le Papa de Simon», «Histoire d'une fille de ferme», «L'Enfant», «Aux champs» or «Hautot père et fils», in which the author addresses fatherhood, the female condition and social conventions from his characteristic realism, with often ironic or bitter endings.
School edition from the Classiques Bordas collection, with complete text, critical apparatus, author biography, historical contexts and an iconographic notebook relating the stories to paintings by Renoir, Monet, Marie Bashkirtseff or Paul Mathey.
For secondary school students and readers who want to approach Maupassant's tales with didactic support materials.
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.
