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| Uniform title | Notre cœur. English |
| Series |
New York Review Books classics
New York Review Books classics. ^A527571
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| Abstract |
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. |
| General note | "A new translation by Richard Howard."--Cover. |
| Language | Translated from French. |
| Genre/form | Love stories. |
| LCCN | 2009004537 |
| ISBN | 9781590172605 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1590172604 (alk. paper) |
