Guy de Maupassant

Seven masterly tales: "La Parure," "Mademoiselle Fifi," "La Maison Tellier," "La Ficelle," "Miss Harriet," "Boule de Suif," and "Le Horla." In French, with new English translations on facing pages.

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Evan Carter

This book was entertaining, I definitely wouldn’t study it as an example of feminism though (not to say anyone is). But I never realized how pessimism could be entertaining but also jaw-dropping at the same time. I first read one of these stories during a high school English class, and I was expecting the same life questioning questions that presented in that story in all of the rest. Instead I got passive aggressive stories on business men, and confusing women. If you don’t take his obvious dated look on gender then you can see how ridiculous these gender assumptions were. And they’ll be hilarious to think anyone actually thought this way. 

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