I serien Entimmesboken presenteras bra och engagerande noveller. Merparten är klassiker, men flera titlar i serien är skrivna av moderna författare. Detta ger goda möjligheter till analyser över olika epoker. Böckerna ger eleven en känsla av att ha läst en bra skönlitterär bok från pärm [...]

'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' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and li[...]

Here are two contrasting stories, one about a necklace of pearls, the other about a necklace of diamonds. Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace is a story of vanity, of two lives blighted by the loss of a diamond necklace, whilst Isak Dinesen's The Pearls is a story of love and fear. Both authors in diff[...]

Oeuvres completes de Guy de Maupassant.... 6Date de l'edition originale: 1908-1910Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque natio[...]

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisPublie chez Havard en 1885 apres avoir paru quelques mois plus tot en feuilleton dans la revue Gil Blas, Bel-Ami est le deuxieme des six romans de Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Une fiche de lecture specialement concue pour le numerique[...]

The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jean, this envy rapidly becomes an all-consuming force. De[...]

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagu[...]

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. This new translation is complemen[...]

Includes "The Necklace, Butterball, The Tellier House, On the Water, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mask, The Inn, A Day in the Country, The Hand, The Jewels, The Model, The Entity (The Horla)
These stories--poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinati[...]

In The Foreign Soul we are in classic Maupassant territory. Robert Mariolle, a wealthy Parisian bachelor, has just arrived in the fashionable spa town of Aix-les-Bains determined to enjoy himself at the casino in the company of high society, attempting to get over his break up with mistress, Henriet[...]