A Parisian Affair and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant Anke ten Doeschate Turgenev's first major prose work

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting

At first it was a ping-pong ball

Beklemmend

hebben een blijvende invloed gehad op latere generaties dichters en worden nog steeds gewaardeerd om hun lyrische schoonheid en diepgang

fear and the elusiveness of that strange thing called happiness

A Parisian Affair and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant Anke ten Doeschate Turgenev's first major prose workInclude thirty three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals nobility, civility and generosity, vanity, greed, and hypocrisy. Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty