"À vendre" is a short story by French author

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

, published in 1885.

History

''À vendre'' is a short story written by

. It was first published in the newspaper

Gil Blas ''Gil Blas'' (french: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane ) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably as The Adventures of G ...

on January 5, 1885, before being reprised in the ''Monsieur Parent'' collection.Maupassant, Contes et nouvelles, II, Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1979, ()

Synopsis

While walking in the surrounds of

Quimperlé Quimperlé (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Quimperlé is in the southeast of Finistère, 20 km to the west of Lorient and 44 km to the east of Quimper. Historically, it belo ...

, the narrator finds a pretty house for sale at the bottom of a narrow, round beach.

Publications

* ''

'', 1885 * ''Monsieur Parent'' - collection published in 1885 by the editor Paul Ollendorff * ''Maupassant, contes et nouvelles'', volume II, text established and annotated by Louis Forestier,

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade The ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'' (, "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the co ...

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

, 1979

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:A vendre 1885 short stories Short stories by Guy de Maupassant Works originally published in Gil Blas (periodical)