Fort comme la mort by Guy de Maupassant
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"Fort comme la mort" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel published in 1889. This psychological drama explores love and aging through the story of Olivier Bertin, a celebrated Parisian painter, and his longtime affair with Anne de Guilleroy. When Anne's daughter Annette returns as a beautiful eighteen-year-old bearing a striking resemblance to her mother's younger self, Bertin becomes unsettlingly captivated. The painter finds himself trapped between past passion and present decline,
confronting the cruel passage of time and his own fading youth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 |
|---|---|
| Title | Fort comme la mort |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_comme_la_mort |
| Credits |
Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Renald Levesque and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Jealousy -- Fiction |
| Subject | Painters -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11450 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 412 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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