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Thanks CW! Ill be having a look at this later. Simon, any chance of getting a lazy link for this?
I was afraid someone might say that.... I can barely spell it let alone get a link to it....Here you go though ...
Direct link to Amazon
Maupassant Short Stories
Knew you'd sort it! Thank you.
GAH! I 1-clicked. Well thats my promise to myself broken.
@Jud: Having been nosey and looked at your "Currently reading" thingy I hope you find many of the short stories in the same vein but a little lighter :):(
Cw wrote: "@Jud: Having been nosey and looked at your "Currently reading" thingy I hope you find many of the short stories in the same vein but a little lighter :):("
I hope so too. I don't usually read so many books can i please point out, but i got so distraught at how horrible ulysses is to read (i just don't get it)I started a new one but then i lent my kindle to a friend in hospital and only have ulysses again (got paperback and kindle copy) which makes me sad but hopefully i'll get it finished and when i get my kindle back i can get stuck into something else.
I love short stories and will read these ones once i get my kindle back is really all i needed to say
Get thee hence to the library for thine copy of White Fang.No idea why I tried on olde Englishe just then...
I think I need a wee dram after that 5 hour drive...
i think so too. I will have to wait till the weekend to get a copy but i might try reading it on my laptop to begin with or just leave it till the weekend and try finishing one of the books i've already started...
I liked ye olde english, it spiced things up a little
I love de Maupassant and had this on my 'currently reading' list for months on end - kind of funny that Amazon has the same thing for sale that you can get for free (in kindle and other formats) from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3090
I managed to escape him through each of my 18 years at school, so I am not sure whether I will ever read a Maupassant book. Guess I ought to, it's part of my culture... maybe it's more of an interesting read when you are not forced to read it and you don't have to dissect every single theme, character and scene...
@Lorraine & Tom: I had never heard of him so it was only a chance click that I picked him up (as Tom says, the free versions, also available free on Amazon).I guess it's like having to admit of never having heard of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Marx or McDonalds but I never fail to discover hidden shallows :)
I have no idea who the best German classic authors are, so I guess unless it's part of your culture it's ok not to know :)
Original Maupassant Short Stories, all 13 volumes in a single file, with active table of contents - Kindle store £0.70p
So, bearing in mind that I read cornflake boxes, why on earth would I flag up GdM as an "interesting read"?
Quite simply I sometimes have the attention span of a goldfish and just want something to entertain me. I'd love to be cultured and have read an enjoyed Dickens, etc. but I just can not stick with it (to my shame.)
GdM writes wonderful short stories about people. Some of them must have been shocking in their day, lose women; men facing dishonour; that kind of thing. I don't know how he does it, but within a few sentences I have vivid "minds eye" pictures of the characters, the settings.
They feel like Hogarth prints, vignettes of the 1870's with a sharp, poignant sometimes heart wrenching plainness that speaks more eloquently than I can ever do in voicing my praise and recommendation.
I'm afraid I don't know of a way to refund other forum members 1-clicks, but I'll happily pledge to pop £1 in my local Samaritans fund for anyone who does not enjoy some time with M. Maupassant :)