Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
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"Pierre et Jean" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel written between June and September 1887. When a family friend leaves his entire inheritance to Jean Roland, his brother Pierre begins to suspect their mother's fidelity and Jean's legitimacy. Pierre's investigation uncovers painful truths that tear the family apart, leading to violent confrontations and shifting loyalties. This psychological realist work explores themes of heredity, bourgeois family life, and the destructive power of
hidden secrets as one brother's life flourishes while the other's crumbles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 |
|---|---|
| Title | Pierre et Jean |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_and_Jean |
| 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: 78.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | Brothers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Normandy (France) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sibling rivalry -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11131 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-11131-5 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1068 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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