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Pierre et Jean

Author: Guy de Maupassant; Julie Mead; Robert Lethbridge
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Pierre et Jean 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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
Pierre et Jean.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001
(OCoLC)606626202
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Guy de Maupassant; Julie Mead; Robert Lethbridge
ISBN: 019283147X 9780192831477
OCLC Number: 47221935
Description: lx, 133 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
Series Title: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Other Titles: Pierre et Jean.
Responsibility: Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Julie Mead ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Lethbridge.
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"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 achievement is to have woven from this  Read more...

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