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Pierre et Jean

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ISBN-10: 019283147X

ISBN-13: 9780192831477

Edition: 2001

Authors: Guy Maupassant, Julie Mead, Robert Lethbridge, Robert Lethbridge

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'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry JamesHenry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover.Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's…    
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Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English