‘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 of a master hand produced poetry, novels, romances and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness and death. . . . .
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 363 ● ISBN 9783748118985 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Books on Demand ● Published 2018 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7415381 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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