The Necklace/The Pearls

De Maupassant, Guy; Dinesen, Isak

ISBN 10: 190128526X / ISBN 13: 9781901285260

Published by Pushkin Press, 2001

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Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # R04A-03689

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Necklace/The Pearls

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Two contrasting stories - The Necklace is a story of vanity, of two lives blighted by the loss of a diamond necklace, whilst The Pearls is the story of love and fear; both authors use the symbolism of jewels to illustrate the human condition.

Guy de Maupassant was born near Dieppe in 1850. A friend of Flaubert, Zola, Daudet and Turgenev, he died in 1893.

Isak Dinesen was the nom de plume of Karen Blixen who was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. She is the author of Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and Out of Africa (1937).

About the Author:

Guy de Maupassant was born in the Chateau de Miromesnil near Dieppe in 1850. It was through Gustave Flaubert, his mentor, that he met other luminaries of his age; Zola, Daudet, Turgenev. The triumphant success of his short story Boule de Suif prompted Maupassant to remark that his passage through the world of letters had been like that of a meteor. He died in Paris at the age of forty-two. Isak Dinesen was the nom de plume of Karen Blixen who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. She made her literary debut in 1934 wuth the publication of Seven Gothic Tales and this was followed a few years later by Out of Africa, an autobiographical account of her life in Kenya which was made into a film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Many of Isak Dinesen's books were published in English and Danish simultaneously including Winter Tales, Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard.