Book: The Great Short Stories Guy De Maupassant GUY DE MAUPASSANT was a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philosophy, Maupassant can illuminate an entire code of values by means of a few telling details. He exposes the brutality of war and the hypocrisy it spawns, and depicts the petty limitations, the dissimulations and the vanities inherent at different levels of society. His stories are linked by a trenchant irony and by a preoccupation with the frailty of human nature and the futility of so many lives.
Details of Book: The Great Short Stories Guy De Maupassant Book: The Great Short Stories Guy De Maupassant
Author: Guy De Maupassant
ISBN: 8179928349
ISBN-13: 9788179928349
, 978-8179928349
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2008
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Number of Pages: 268
Language: English