- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, including politics, war, love despair, and the supernatural - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant's time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mar Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith - An introduction and expl...
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some...
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and...
