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An intensely personal story of suspicion, jealousy and family love, Pierre and Jean is considered Maupassant's greatest novel. Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) was born near Dieppe, in Normandy, and all his life was deeply attached to his native province and its coast. Set around the town of LeHavre, Pierre and Jean captures the vivid, colorful atmosphere of a busy seaport, where a small closed circle of friends and relatives play out this powerful, passionate drama. Under the guidance of Zola, and later Flaubert, Maupassant developed his consummate artistry as a story-teller. Pierre and Jean reveals his masterly descriptive skills, his emotional depth and his light, ironical touch with dialogue and characters. This volume includes Maupassant's celebrated preface in which he discusses his theories of the novel and describes how Flaubert taught him to see and write.
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