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Author: Stephen CoulterBinding: HardbackPublished: JONATHAN CAPE, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsDamned Shall Be Desire: The Passionate Life Of Guy De Maupassant chronicles the tumultuous existence of one of...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to...

Author: Guy De MaupassantBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron BooksCondition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection, Masterpieces Of Maupassant: Une Vie And Short Stories, presents the profound literary contributions of Guy de Maupassant,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers have captured the raw, unvarnished truth of human nature with the precision and economy of Guy...

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...

Maupassant's story of a man whose ideals are corrupted by the world Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as...

Author: Guy De MaupassantBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Blue cloth in good condition....

For Maupassant, existence is what happens to us between two events which we cannot avoid: birth and death. The space between is filled with a compulsory programme of rituals which...

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Author: Guy de MaupassantBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1970Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection features a comprehensive selection of Guy de Maupassant's short stories, showcasing his mastery in...

Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of...

Author: Guy De Maupassant; trans by Marjorie LaurieBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerBel-Ami presents a...

A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet have in common beyond their literary genius? According to...

The best of nineteenth-century 'fantastic' literature From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These...

The luxurious volume En Passant par la Demeure is a vivid photographic tour of the noted French interior designer Jean-Loup Daraux's country home. Located in the south of France, in...

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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...

A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience...

Tales from the classic era of ghost stories, one of the most popular and enduring fiction categories. A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James,...

From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges to the mighty Mississippi-the rivers of the world wind through this glorious anthology from the world's great writers. Rivers and streams play...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century embody the collision between artistic genius and political tyranny as profoundly as Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**Few publications have rattled the cages of mainstream comics culture quite like Métal Hurlant, the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the great waves of modern migration reshaped the world, thousands of Swedes boarded ships bound...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities have captivated the scholarly imagination quite like Constantinople, and Pierre Gilles — a sixteenth-century French...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most celebrated airmen of the Second World War, Wing Commander Guy Gibson...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Appears unread. Few texts illuminate the medieval world of pilgrimage and sacred wonder as vividly as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the golden age of British Romanticism, no artist captured the raw, elemental power of nature with greater urgency than...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of law, philosophy, and moral reasoning stands Oxford Essays in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of artistry and martial heritage stands Art, Arms and Armour: An International Anthology, a landmark volume that unites the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most harrowing chapters of the Second World War, the Sandakan...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the turbulent age of the Plantagenets, the knights and landowners of Yorkshire were far more...

Secondhand Young Adult Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4092 Twenty-one books spanning the full range of contemporary YA and crossover fantasy — from established series like Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments and...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Minor tears to spineIn the darkest years of the Second World War, a small community in Sandakan, British...

Secondhand Children's Classic Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4082 Enid Blyton at her best — Famous Five, Secret Seven, Adventure series, Malory Towers, the Wishing-Chair, the Magic Faraway Tree — alongside...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; light wear, yellowed pages, small creases on corners.When the world's most formidable warrior-king sets his sights on...