The Horla - Brossura

De Maupassant, Guy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0976140748 ISBN 13: 9780976140740

Casa editrice: Melville House, 2005

Riassunto

This chilling tale chronicles one man's terrifying descent into paranoia and madness as seen through the increasing intensity of his spell-binding journal entries.

This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collectible, they are often the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this underappreciated literary form and providing a fresh take on the world's most celebrated authors.

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Recensione:

"Small wonders"
--"Time Out London"
"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."
--Ron Rosenbaum, "The New York Observer"

L'autore:

Guy de Maupassant is a master of short fiction and the father of the modern short story. He is the author of A Woman's Life and Pierre et Jean.


Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At 20 he served in the Franco-Prussian War, then studied writing with his mother’s friend Gustav Flaubert (perhaps believing rumors, which persist, that Flaubert was his father). In 1880 he published his first story, “Boule de Suif,” which was hailed as a masterpiece. He quit his civil service job and soon published the collection,La Maison Tellier. He would go on to publish 300 stories and six novels, includingBel-Ami and Pierre et Jean, while living the life of a bon vivant. In the late 1880s, however, he began to show signs of syphilitic mental illness, and in 1891, was institutionalized after a suicide attempt. He died in a mental asylum in 1893.

Charlotte Mandell has won the Modern Language Association Prize in translation. Among other titles she has translated for The Art of the Novella series are Marcel Proust'sThe Lemoine Affair, Guy de Maupassant's The Horla, and Gustave Flaubert’sA Simple Heart.

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• Editore: Melville House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976140748
• ISBN 13: 9780976140740
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96