LETTERS: NCT, August 13, 2008 Aug 14, 2008
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James BryceHeroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert EinsteinPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand RussellDo not... regard... (North County Times)
What To Do In The Auvergne Region Jul 27, 2008
One of the best descriptions of the castle is from Guy de Maupassant who wrote in 1885 ... Sources: The ruins of the Ch teau de Murol were described by Guy de Maupassant in his short story Humble Drame from "Contes du jour at de la nuit" (1885). (Suite101.com)
Friends for faraway places Jun 14, 2008
For the Paris of the 19th century, there is the spiky novel by Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics), with its lovely comic structure, based on exponentially increasing, unassailable good luck. Which makes it the opposite of much sadder summer reading: the Normandy of the 19th century which Maupassant describes in his novel Une Vie (Wildeside Press), with its structure of exponentially increasing, unassailable bad luck. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
50 arts secrets revealed Mar 2, 2008
Some of the best - Frank O'Connor, Guy de Maupassant, Paul Gallico - knew how to create an entire world in a few thousand words. Q Does everyone have a novel in them. (Guardian Unlimited)
Market Retest: Pass or Fail? Feb 7, 2008
MARKET RETEST: PASS OR FAIL. Doug Fabian's Making Money Alert. (Human Events Online)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
Ford and his friend Joseph Conrad loved a sentence from a Guy de Maupassant story: "He was a gentleman with red whiskers who always went first through a doorway." Ford comments: "that gentleman is so sufficiently got in that you need no more of him to understand how he will act. He has been 'got in' and can get to work at once.". Ford is right. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
France Will Ban Smoking in Cafes, Clubs, Stamping Out Sartre's Gauloises Dec 31, 2007
Images such as Sartre at Paris's Cafe de Flore and novelist Guy de Maupassant and poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire puffing away at cafes made smoking fashionable. Actress Jeanne Moreau, Francois Truffaut's muse, who acted in the 1962 ``Jules et Jim,'' once said in her smoker's voice, ``I don't trust men who don't smoke. (Bloomberg)
Designer baby fear over heart gene test Dec 16, 2007
Lucky for us that the parents of (Agatha Christie - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Algernon Charles Swinbunre - Blaise Pascal- Charles Dickens Dante - Edgar Allen Poe - Edward Lear - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Gustave Flaubert - Guy de Maupassant Lewis Carrol - Lord Byron - Professor Manning Clarke - Pythagoras (Philosopher & Mathematician) Sir Walter Scott - Socrates - Truman Capote) weren't tested for Epilepsy. Our world would be a much less interesting place. (Times Online)
Portsmouth area community calendar Dec 13, 2007
n CHAMBER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS "ENCORE!!," which dramatizes five famous short stories by world-renowned writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, W.W. Jacobs, Guy de Maupassant, and Mark Twain, at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. Tickets are $15. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Korrie Layun Rampan: Kalimantan wordsmith turns politician Nov 10, 2007
I have proved the two really can run side by side," said the first prizewinner in the novel section at the Jakarta Arts Council in 1976. Korrie was born in Samarinda on Aug. 17, 1953. When he was a young man Korrie lived for a long time in Yogyakarta. While studying at university in Yogyakarta, Korrie was active in many literary activities. He joined the study group Persada Studi Klub (PSK -- homeland literary club), which was then led by the poet Umbu Landu Paranggi. The PSK, which coordinated... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Los deseos del hombre son como una mariposa de muchos colores Oct 24, 2007
Sin poder explicarlo, siempre h/ recordado uno en especial, escrito por el gran autor franc/s: Guy de Maupassant ... Without being able to explain it, I have always remembered one in particular, which was written by the great French author, Guy de Maupassant. (Nogales International, AZ)
Gustave Flaubert Sep 22, 2007
Trois contes (Stories or Tales) reveals his mastery of the short story and foreshadows Guy de Maupassant, whom he greatly influenced. After his death appeared Bouvard et Pecuchet (Bouvard and Pecuchet), which had not received his final revision. (Suite101.com)
Guy de Maupassant Sep 22, 2007
French Novelist and Short-story Writer. De Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 in a Norman chateau of Miromesnil, in northern France. (Suite101.com)
Daphne Du Maurier Jun 29, 2007
Her work was strongly influenced by many literary giants including Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield and Somerset Maugham. Du Maurier and Romance. (Suite101.com)
Henry James: Writer and Critic Apr 21, 2007
He was greatly influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Honor; de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, and Ivan Turgenev. was born in New York City into a wealthy and prominent family. (Suite101.com)
Francophiles talk the talk at bakery Mar 27, 2007
As the coffee is sipped and the croissants are munched, Farvin helps adults get ready for a trip across the Atlantic or perhaps just improve their ability to enjoy authors like Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant and mile Zola in their original language. But the emphasis at the Friday sessions is on conversation. (AZCentral -- Business)
