My Uncle Jules and Other Stories/Mon oncle Jules et autres contes living prison

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the Scotland-born British naval commander who rose from humble beginnings to pilot three great eighteenth-century voyages of discovery in the then practically uncharted Pacific

My Uncle Jules and Other Stories/Mon oncle Jules et autres contes living prisonAdmired as "the greatest French short story writer," and emulated by Somerset Maugham and O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant (1850 1893) was a master of plot construction and a keen recorder of life, translating his observations into finely crafted short stories that spoke entire volumes. This edition features twelve of de Maupassant's best known stories, each reflecting the author's keen, compassionate insights into human behavior. Presented in a dual