A Parisian Affair and Other Stories AUTH-2024100 ISBN13: 9781467141932

ISBN13: 9781467141932

Rich in detail

Besides considerable attention to doctrines of Kant's

Deeply informed by political philosophy and based on decades of personal involvement with politics and social activism

USMC -- who died earlier in the war

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories AUTH-2024100 ISBN13: 9781467141932Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth century literature. They focus on the relationships between men and women, as in the poignant fantasy of 'A Parisian Affair', between brothers and sisters, and between masters and