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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20020701
Author:Lloyd, Christopher
Bel-Ami. By GUY DE MAUPASSANT. Trans. by MARGARET MAULDON, with an introduction and notes by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. lvi + 303 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling].
This well-packaged and affordable volume comprises a substantial introduction and bibliography, as well as a biographical chronology of Maupassant and thirteen pages of explanatory notes. Although we are told rather quaintly by the publisher's initial blurb that Zola recruited Maupassant to 'his new "Naturalist" school of writing', Robert Lethbridge skillfully outlines ...
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