Books with author Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant

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Excerpt from Une Vie, and Other Stories, Vol. 5The most robust and masculine of recent French novel ists is a typical Norman, sprung from an ancient noble family, originally of Lorraine, but long settled in the Pays de Caux. The traveler from England towards Paris, soon after leaving Dieppe, sees on his left hand, immediately beyond the station of St. Aubin, a hand some sixteenth-century house, the Chateau de Miro mesnil, on a hill above the railway. Here, surrounded by the relics of his warlike and courtly ancestors, Henri René Albert Guy de lviaupassant was born on the 5th of August, 1850. He was early associated with the great Norman master of fiction, Gustave F laub-ert, who perceived his genius and enthusiastically undertook the training of his intelligence. Through 1870 and 1871 the young man served in the war as a common soldier. He was somewhat slow in taking up the profession Of letters, and was thirty years Of age before he be came in any degree distinguished. In 1879 the Troisieme Theatre Francais produced a short play of his, Histoz're da Vieux Temps (an old-world Story), gracefully written in rhyme, but showing no very re markable aptitude for the stage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Une Vie, Saint Anthony, Minuet, and Other StoriesI will simply recall that he was born on the sth of August, 1850, near Dieppe, in the castle of Miro mesnil which he describes in Une Vie.Maupassant, like Flaubert, was a Norman, through his mother, and through his place of birth he be longed to that strange and adventurous race, whose heroic and long voyages on tramp trading ships he liked to recall. And just as the author Of Educa tion sentimentale seems to have inherited in the paternal line the shrewd realism of Champagne, so de Maupassant appears to have inherited from his Lorraine ancestors their indestructible discipline and cold lucidity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.