The Foreign Soul & the Angelus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780955852510)

In The Foreign Soul we are in classic Maupassant territory. Robert Mariolle, a wealthy Parisian bachelor, has just arrived in the fashionable spa town of Aix-les-Bains determined to enjoy himself at the casino in the company of high society, attempting to get over his break up with mistress, Henriette Lambel. The Angelus was intended to be Maupassant's great masterpiece, an ambitious inverted allegory of Christianity into which the author would pour his growing pessimism and despair. Set during the Franco-Prussian War, as were some of Maupassant's finest short stories, The Angelus finds the pregnant Countess de Br montal alone in her ch teau as Prussian troops move into the neighbourhood. Here are the first English translations of Maupassant's two unfinished novels, The Foreign Soul L'Ame trang re] and The Angelus L'Ang lus], together with full critical apparatus, including secondary sources outlining Maupassant's future plot ideas and an essay on The Foreign Soul by Paul Bourget.

Author: Guy De Maupassant, James Wilson
ISBN-10: 095585251X
ISBN-13: 9780955852510
Publisher: Duchy of Lambeth
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2008
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d