Pierre and Jean - Softcover

Maupassant, Guy De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1404323899 ISBN 13: 9781404323896

Publisher: IndyPublish, 2002

Synopsis

First published in France in 1888, Maupassant's story of rivalry between two brothers is a piercing study of jealousy and suspicion. 4 cassettes.

About this title

About the Author:

Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At his parents’ separation he stayed with his mother, who was a friend of Flaubert. As a young man he was lively and athletic, but the first symptoms of syphilis appeared in the late 1870s. By this time Maupassant had become Flaubert’s pupil in the art of prose. On the publication of the first short story to which he put his name, ‘Boule de suif’, he left his job in the civil service and his temporary alliance with the disciples of Zola at Médan, and devoted his energy to professional writing. In the next eleven years he published dozens of articles, nearly three hundred stories and six novels, the best known of which are A Woman’s Life, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean. He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: IndyPublish
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1404323899
• ISBN 13: 9781404323896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142