Guy de Maupassant Collection: The False Jewels, Useless Beauty

Guy de Maupassant Collection: The False Jewels, Useless Beauty

Guy de Maupassant Collection: The False Jewels, Useless Beauty

Guy de Maupassant Collection: The False Jewels, Useless Beauty

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Overview

The False Jewels: Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His narratives are characterized by an economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads are neatly resolved. In "The False Jewels," a man who dotes on his wife is crushed by her unexpected death and then astounded by a revelation about her costume jewelry.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469259642
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 12/04/2012
Series: Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio)
Edition description: Unabridged
Pages: 1
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prolific French writer best remembered as a master of the short story and a father of the genre. He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as "The Necklace," "The Horla," "The False Gems," and "Useless Beauty." Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories, as well as six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.

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