Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) is the most celebrated of French short-story writers. The brilliance of his technique is combined with an ethical nihilism. Guy de Maupassant was born on Aug. 5, 1850, in Normandy; his exact birthpla...
Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the masters of the short story, Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, six novels, three travel journals, and many chronicles. However, he clearly excelled in the sh...
WHEN Albert Camus was killed in a car crash in January 1960, something was lost to France that has never been recovered. Camus was mourned because young people loved both him and his work and thought of him as a lost brother. They did...
The two most rapidly expanding airports in the country today grew up together in Washington's back yard, but never before has their sibling rivalry been so great. Officials at Washington Dulles International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Airport at first discount talk of competition...
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