Strong as Death
Guy de Maupassant
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Description
Guy de Maupassant's novel Strong as Death opens in Part I with a chapter called A Duel of Hearts. Daylight pours through a skylight into a vast artist's studio, a severe room with high ceilings and draped walls, where the light softens among hangings and dies in the corners.
Unfinished portraits of great personages gleam in gilded frames, and the air holds paint, turpentine, and tobacco. Maupassant lingers on the weariness of the place after the master's daily struggle, as if the furniture itself had toiled with him. From this quiet studio the novel moves into a story of love, art, and aging in Paris society.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Guy de Maupassant |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 439 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |