A Woman's Life
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and social life
- Readers who wish to reflect on life and fate through classic literature
- Readers who appreciate a calm, delicate, and insightful realist narrative style
- Readers looking for profound depictions of love, marriage, and personal growth
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking lighthearted romantic stories with happy endings
- Readers impatient with a relatively slow-paced classical narrative style that emphasizes psychology and setting
Reading tips
- Read it alongside Maupassant's short-story collections to appreciate the distinct artistry of his long and short fiction.
- While reading, pay attention to the connection between environmental description and characters' psychological states—an important feature of Maupassant's art.
- After finishing the story, reconsider the meaning of the title A Life; you may arrive at a deeper understanding.
About the publisher
China Friendship Publishing Company is a comprehensive publisher known for its literary titles, covering classical Chinese literature, foreign literature, folk literature and cultural appreciation. According to the books in the database, its classical list includes celebrated dramas and novels such as The Peony Pavilion, The Romance of the Western Chamber and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, as well as note-style classics like Hong Mai's Rongzhai Suibi. In foreign literature it offers translations of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country and Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, involving translators such as Zeng Siyi. It also publishes The Complete Literary Works of Lu Xun and titles associated with the "Xue'er Shuguan" editorial group, balancing the collation and popularization of classic texts. Public information on its publishing features and plans is limited; the above is summarized only from the books in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 译者序
- 一生
- 一
- 二
- 三
- 四
- 五
- 六
- 七
- 八
- 九
- 十
- 十一
- 十二
- 十三
- 十四
- 伊韦特
- 一
- 二
- 三
- 四
- 保罗的夫人
- 春天
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About the author
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a French naturalist novelist, hailed as a master of the short story. Born into a declining aristocratic family in Normandy, he studied under Flaubert and rose to fame with Boule de Suif in 1880. His representative works include The Necklace, My Uncle Jules, Bel Ami, and A Life. Over his career he wrote roughly three hundred short stories and six novels. Drawing on everyday French social life, his writing is cool and objective, using concise narrative to reveal the complexity of human nature and the harshness of reality, and he remains widely read in the categories of foreign literature and classic works.
