by Guy de Maupassant · FOLIO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070370368
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«Miss Harriet et autres nouvelles» is Guy de Maupassant's short story collection published by Folio in paperback (288 pages, in French).
The title story presents a reserved Englishwoman secretly in love with a painter, portraying an unrequited passion with melancholy and delicacy. Other tales show the French lower middle class after the Franco-Prussian War, with inheritances, disappointments and lives marked by routine.
1978 edition with an introduction by Dominique Fernandez; volume 1036 of the Folio Classique collection, complete text.
Recommended for readers of French classics and nineteenth-century fiction who prefer the text in its 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.
