| Description |
1 online resource (lv, 133 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Guy de Maupassant; Maps; I. Normandy; II. Seine Estuary c.1890; III. Le Havre c.1885; PIERRE ET JEAN; Explanatory Notes |
| Summary |
Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry 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 1880's and is notable fo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-133) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mead, Julie
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Lethbridge, Robert
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| LC no. |
2001045174 |
| ISBN |
9780191610509 |
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019161050X |
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1283296691 |
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9781283296694 |
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9786613296696 |
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6613296694 |
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9780191611049 |
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0191611042 |
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