The necklace and other stories
Subtitle: Maupassant for modern times
By: Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Sandra Smith
Contributors: Smith, Sandra, 1949- translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liverlight Publishing Corporation
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780871403681
Work titles: Short stories
Description: From the best-selling translator of Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise comes this bold new translation that reinterprets Guy de Maupassant's best works for a new generation.
Notes: Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Tales of French life --; title: The necklace (La parure) --; title: My uncle Jules (Mon oncle Jules) --; title: The protector (Le protecteur) --; title: The journey (Le voyage) --; title: Mademoiselle Pearl(Mademoiselle Pearl) --; title: The umbrella (Le parapluie) --; title: On horseback (A cheval) --; title: The baptism (Le baptême) --; title: In the countryside (Aux champs) --; title: Adieu (Adieu) --; title: A day in the country (Une partie de campagne) --; title: The question of Latin (La question de Latin) --; title: Tales of war --; title: Mademoiselle Fifi (Mademoiselle Fifi) --; title: The madwoman (La folle) --; title: Lieutentant Laré's marriage (Le mariage du Lieutenant Laré) --; title: Two friends (Deux amis) --; title: Père Milon (Le père Milon) --; title: The adventure of Walter Schnaffs (L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs) --; title: La mère sauvage (La mère sauvage) --; title: The prisoners (Les prisonniers) --; title: A duel (Un duel) --; title: Boule de suif (Boule de suif) --; title: Novella --; title: Tales of the supernatural --; title: On the water (Sur l'eau) --; title: Fear (La peur) --; title: The apparition (L'Apparition) --; title: The hand (La main) --; title: Lost at sea (Le noyé) --; title: Who can know? (Qui sait?) --; title: A nightmare (La nuit: un cauchemar) --; title: Le horla (Le horla) --; title: Novella.