Guy de Maupassant

Like all of Guy de Maupassant's work, Strong as Death is a poignant and haunting tale. It is a tale of love, life, death, and the mystery of the human heart; a tale of an affair of the heart that cannot stand the light of day -- a profane love that lasts a lifetime, and haunts from beyond the grave. (Jacketless …

La casa Tellier è una raccolta di racconti in lingua francese di Guy de Maupassant, pubblicata per la prima volta dall'editore Victor Havard il 21 aprile 1881, e in edizione ampliata dall'editore Paul Ollendorff nel 1891.

Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus on the …