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  • Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant, Prof David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.' Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by ... Read more

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  • Guy de Maupassant

    The Complete Short Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Delve into the captivating world of Guy de Maupassant, one of the greatest masters of short fiction. This comprehensive collection brings together his finest works, renowned for their brilliant realism, emotional depth, and sharp observation of life . The Complete Short Stories is a treasure trove of timeless tales that explore the complexities of human nature and society This eBook includes ... Read more

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  • The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

    by Henri Alain-Fournier ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick HornbyThe Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and ... Read more

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  • Vertigo

    by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ...
    Series Book 5 - Pushkin Vertigo
    The original breath-taking psychological thriller behind Hitchcock’s legendary film—the story of a man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a terrible secretIt could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Germinal

    by �mile Zola, Robert Lethbridge ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually ... Read more

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  • La Bête humaine

    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Guy de Maupassant: The Complete Novels and Short Stories + A Biography of the Author

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series The Greatest Writers of All Time
    This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels and ... Read more

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  • Guy de Maupassant: The Complete Short Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    This book, newly updated, contains the (almost) complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant in the chronological order of their original publication.Here you will find the largest collection of Maupassant’s short stories available in English (277 short stories).As you will notice, this book DOES NOT INCLUDE the 65 fake Maupassant stories... stories that weren't written by Maupassant but are always ... Read more

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  • Maupassant: 4 Novels and 169 Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    With links from the tables of contents to every chapter and every story, this file includes four novels, in English translation: Une Vie, Bel Ami, Pierre and Jean, and Strong as Death. It also includes all 13 volumes of "Original Maupassant Short Stories", with a total of 169 stories. According to Wikipedia: "Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th ... Read more

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 09

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    He was known for thirty miles round was father Toine— fat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandy— the innkeeper of Tournevent. ... Read more

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  • Works Of Guy De Maupassant: (200+ Works) Includes Strong As Death, Pierre And Jean, Une Vie And More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books and stories. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a ... Read more

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  • The Bright Side of Life

    by Andrew Rothwell, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.' Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the ... Read more

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