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The Horla
by Guy de Maupassant
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Classic Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Each chapter paginated separately. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Top corner of front free endpaper ripped out. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to front board.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1710752244ABS
- Title
- The Horla
- Author
- Guy de Maupassant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Classic Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Acceptable
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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