Pierre et Jean / Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Julie Mead ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Lethbridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.

Contributor:

Mead, Julie.

Lethbridge, Robert

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Pierre et Jean. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Sibling rivalry--Fiction.

Sibling rivalry.

Normandy (France)--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Normandy (France)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lv, 133 pages : maps ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Henry James's admiration for "this masterly little novel" has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover. Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's greatest achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

019283147X

OCLC:

47221935