Alien hearts, by Guy de Maupassant ; translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard
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Alien hearts, by Guy de Maupassant ; translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard
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Alien hearts
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302189222
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by Guy de Maupassant ; translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard
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New York Review Books classics
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Alien Hearts "was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. "Alien Hearts "is the story of lovers bound by bitterness as much as by passion. Maupassant's hero falls for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty whose past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him-and everyone-at arm's length. He seeks solace with a servant girl, but remains racked by pointless infatuation
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