De, Maupassant, Guy – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:59:16 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png De, Maupassant, Guy – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 A French Christmas https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-french-christmas/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=43577 Joyeux Noël! Merry Christmas! These festive stories welcome Christmas à la française – delicious, chic and unexpected.

Sparkling Parisian streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, oysters, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine: this collection of stories proves that the French have truly mastered Christmas.

Bringing together the best French Christmas stories of all time, this lovely book includes classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

Let these generous, joyous stories transport you and your loved ones into the heart of a very French Christmas.

]]> Selected Stories https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/selected-stories-3/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=17148 During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’, ‘The House of Madame Tellier’, ‘The Hand’, ‘The Horla’ and ‘Mademoiselle Fifi’. Marked by the psychological realism that he famously pioneered, the tales in this selection lead us on a tour of the human experience-lust and love, revenge and ridicule, terror and madness. Many take place in the author’s native Normandy, but the settings range farther abroad as well, from Brittany and Paris to Corsica and the Mediterranean coast, and even to North Africa and India. Maupassant’s remarkable range and ability to evoke an entire world in a few pages have ensured that his fiction has retained its power to entertain through generations of readers. Marjorie Laurie’s accomplished translations from the 1920s have similarly stood the test of time.

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