The Horla (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
by Guy de Maupassant
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- ISBN 13
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Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At 20 he served in the Franco-Prussian War, then studied writing with his mother’s friend Gustav Flaubert (perhaps believing rumors, which persist, that Flaubert was his father). In 1880 he published his first story, “Boule de Suif,” which was hailed as a masterpiece. He quit his civil service job and soon published the collection, La Maison Tellier . He would go on to publish 300 stories and six novels, including Bel-Ami and Pierre et Jean , while living the life of a bon vivant. In the late 1880s, however, he began to show signs of syphilitic mental illness, and in 1891, was institutionalized after a suicide attempt. He died in a mental asylum in 1893. Charlotte Mandell has won the Modern Language Association Prize in translation. Among other titles she has translated for The Art of the Novella series are Marcel Proust's The Lemoine Affair , Guy de Maupassant's The Horla , and Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart .
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- Title
- The Horla (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
- Author
- Guy de Maupassant
- Book Condition
- New New
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1447405005
- ISBN 13
- 9781447405009
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- Fantasy And Horror Classics
- This edition first published
- 2011-04
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