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Guy de Maupassant
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Countess Satan and Other Tales |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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276 |
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2004-08-01 |
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0809597918 |
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Wildside Press |
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1.24 pounds |
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5.91 x 0.74 x 8.86 inches |
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Product Description
Maupassant has been called a literary nihilist -- but (and this is the second trait of his singular genius) in him nihilism finds itself coexistent with an animal energy so fresh and so intense that for a long time it deceives the closest observer. In an eloquent discourse, pronounced over his premature grave, Emile Zola well defined this illusion: "We congratulated him," said he, "upon that health which seemed unbreakable, and justly credited him with the soundest constitution of our band, as well as with the clearest mind and the sanest reason. It was then that this frightful thunderbolt destroyed him."
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