Pierre and Jean [EasyRead Edition] - Softcover

De Maupassant, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425078192 ISBN 13: 9781425078195

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com, 2007

Synopsis

In the long portrait-gallery of men of letters there are many figures, including some of the most famous, which in one aspect, at any rate, have baffled the analysis of countless critics. The relation between the training of these writers and their art, between the lives they led and the work they did, between their surroundings and their message, remains untraced and obscure despite every effort of loving or malicious research. Thus, above all others, it is with Shakespeare ;and thus it would remain if every fact of his daily existence were known to us. Thus, in differing degrees and for various reasons, it is with Cervantes and Swift, with Keats and with Heine. Others, on the contrary, stand out clearly as the best product of the particular set of circumstances grouped about their lives. They seem to be the finished result of a given up-bringing, of a precise tutelage, and of a chosen career. Of tiiis second category Guy de Maupassant is a singularly complete example.
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About this title

About the Author:

Hugh Craig is Professor of English at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he also directs the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1425078192
• ISBN 13: 9781425078195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200