L'Inutile Beauté
1890
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Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is regarded as a master of short story writing. First published in 1890, “Useless Beauty” is one of his best-known tales. It is centered around the story of a beautiful French countess who one day decides to tell his husband that the father of one of their sons is not him. This edition contains the 1909 English translation by Alfred de Sumichrast (1845-1933) and Adolphe Cohn (1851-1930). It also includes the beautiful essay “Guy de Maupassant” written by Henry James (1843-1916) in 1888.
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Guy de Maupassant
Author · 165 books
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
