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every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'

Une vie est le premier roman de Guy de Maupassant, publi? pour la premi?re fois en 1883, et suive, selon la descriptions de Gil Blas, la vie ? d'une femme depuis l'heure o? s'?veille son coeur jusqu'? sa mort", tout ? fait d?primante entre un mari trompeur, la solitude de la... Read Full Overview

Henry-Ren -Albert-Guy de Maupassant est un crivain et journaliste litt raire fran ais n le 5 ao t 1850 au ch teau de Miromesnil Tourville-sur-Arques (Seine-Inf rieure) et mort le 6 juillet 1893 Paris. Li Gustave Flaubert et mile Zola, Maupassant a marqu la litt rature... Read Full Overview

Une vie ou L'Humble V?rit? est le premier roman de Guy de Maupassant, paru d'abord en feuilleton en 1883 dans le Gil Blas, puis en livre, la m?me ann?e, sous le titre L'Humble V?rit?. Le roman d?crit la vie ? d'une femme depuis l'heure o? s'?veille son coeur jusqu'? sa mort ?.r?sum?... Read Full Overview

The title, Une Vie ("a life" though I've seen the title of the book translated as The History of a Heart in English), is using the article ind?fini (une/a) conveying the fact that this is "a life", or any life, which makes the life in question in this book neither more nor less... Read Full Overview

A Life (1883), the first of Maupassant's six completed novels, tells the story of Jeanne de Lamare, the only daughter of wealthy Norman aristocrats. From the day she leaves convent school, her head full of innocent hopes for the future, to the moment twenty-nine years later when... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Guy de Maupassant: Ein Leben. Roman Erstdruck: 1883 als Fortsetzungsroman in der Zeitschrift Gil Blas unter dem Titel Une vie ou L'Humble V rit . Im selben Jahr in Buchform erschienen als L'Humble V rit . Deutsche Erstausgabe: Ein Leben, Frankfurt an der Oder, Verlagshaus Hugo... Read Full Overview