Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories (The ^AWorld's Classics)

By Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview

In addition to the title story, this volume includes Shepherd's Leap, Call it Madness?, Two Friends, At Sea, The Tribulations of Walter Schnaffs, Miss Harriet, A Duel, A Vendetta, The Model, Mother Savage, The Little Keg, The Dowry, The Bequest, Monsieur Parent, This Business of Latin, Madame Husson's May King, Hautot and Son, The Grove of Olives, and Who Can Tell?.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192829238
• ISBN13: 9780192829238
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.2" x 0.5" x 4.6"

Customer Reviews

Vive la Fifi!

I loved this book so, it was one of those times it was heartbreaking to come to the end. Each story was a nice short gem, perfect to enjoy in a sitting.

Very recomended

Once the reader browses through the descriptions of Mapassaunt's life and philosophies in the roman numbered pages begining this title, he or she knows that the following stories are going to be quite dark. They are and they are also, for the most part, vividly descriptive, intriguing, full of symbolism and extremely memorable. From the incendiary betrayals of "Monseiur Parent" and "the Dowry" to gruesome consequences of moral lapses seen in "At Sea" and "the Model" to outride incredible savagery of "A Vendetta" and the title story, this book proves that Maupassant is a master of all things dark, pessimistic and brutal.