Author: De Maupassant
Publisher: Pocket 12
Year: 1942 Print: 16 Cover Price: $
Condition: Book Grades.  Good. Cover/edge wear
Genre: Fiction/Short Stories
Pages: 384
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Read “The False Gems,” which exemplifies exquisitely his finest features: the companionable, pragmatic narration, the discreet moral wit, the devastating understatement, the sparkling, gem-like compression of comment and incident. The ending arrives with a blow that will leave you sobbing with compassionate laughter, and despair. Also in this book are 'Love', 'Simon’s Papa', 'Rose', 'An Affair of State', 'The Diamond Necklace', 'Clochette', 'The Signal', 'Useless Beauty', 'A Normandy Joke', 'The Wolf', 'The Duel', 'Madame Tellier’s Excursion', 'That Pig of a Morin', 'The Mad Woman', 'Julie Romain', 'The Venus of Braniza', 'Toine', 'Moonlight', 'Ball-of-Fat', 'The Specter', 'How He Got The Legion of Honor', 'A Piece of String', 'A Country Excursion', 'A Strange Fancy', 'Mademoiselle Fifi', 'A Sale', 'One Phase of Love', 'The Vendetta', 'My Uncle Sosthenes', 'A Fishing Excursion', 'The Little Cask', 'The Story of a Farm Girl', 'Two Little Soldiers', 'The Orderly' and 'The Dancers'.