Miss Harriet was an early work by Guy de Maupassant which was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social disgrace by trying to secure a legal separation from her husband. A New Translation by H.N.P. Sloman:
Contains 15 stories:
- The Legacy
- Uncle Tony
- Who Knows?
- The Hautots, Father and Son
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Old Vestey
- Cemetery Walkers
- Miss Harriet
- The Pool
- Prisoners of War
- Monsieur Bush
- Looking Back
- The Withered Hand
- The Question of Latin
- Monsieur Parent
Miss Harriet and Other Stories by Guy De Maupassant 1951 First Edition Thus
Title: Miss Harriet and Other Stories
Author: Guy De Maupassant
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1951 First Edition Thus
Format: PaperbackCondition: Green and white covers which have some light creasing to corners, scuffing and fading to spine with small split to the bottom. The pages are clean with no ink or pencil marks, just some light tanning due to age.
Book measures 18cm x 11cm with 250 pages.