Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition

By Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview

The Norton Critical Edition includes: - Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith. - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge. - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, including politics, war, love, despair, and the supernatural. - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant's time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393923274
• ISBN13: 9780393923278
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 1.0" x 5.2"