The Tallow Ball: Ten Cent Pocket Series (Little Blue Book). by de Maupassant, Guy. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Twenty-four short stories in addition to Ball-of-Tallow ("Boule De Suif"), which is considered his masterpiece by many. Short stories by French 19th century author Guy de Maupassant, generally considered the greatest French short story writer. bullet; "The Tallow Ball" by Guy de Maupassant became "A French Prostitute's Sacrifice." bullet; None Beneath the King by José Zorrilla became None Beneath the King Shall Enjoy This Woman. bullet; Victor Hugo’s The King Amuses Himself became The Lustful King Enjoys Himself. Haldeman-Julius didn't always make the titles more risque.
"Boule de Suif" and other famous stories by Guy de Maupassant. A group of very bored Prussian officers stationed in a chateau in Normandy after the French defeat in the War of decide to organize a banquet-orgy with a group of prostitutes from the nearby town of Rouen. The orgy goes more or less as planned until the final round of. The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/Ball-of-Fat. Their leaders were former cloth or grain merchants, ex-merchants in tallow or soap, warriors of circumstance, elected officers on account of their escutcheons and the length of their mustaches, covered with arms and with braid, speaking in constrained voices, discussing plans of. GUY DE MAUPASSANT A STUDY BY POL. NEVEUX "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years, the writer, by turns undaunted and sorrowful, with the fertility.
The Tallow Ball: Ten Cent Pocket Series (Little Blue Book). by de Maupassant, Guy. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Boule de Suif [Tallow Ball Other Stories] by Guy de Maupassant This series makes available one or more short stories of Guy de Maupassant, the great French master of the short story form. The current title is a selection of his stories from the year First of foremost is the story Boule de Suif (Tallow Ball or Ball of Fat). Guy de Maupassant’s The Tallow Ball (15k copies) changed to A French Prostitute’s Sacrifice (54K copies) Oscar Wilde’s Pen, Pencil and Poison (5Kcopies.) changed to The Story of a Notorious Criminal (15K copies.) Titles of books can be changed when made into movies or sold in foreign markets. It is something to consider if sales are low.
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