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Title: Un portrait Title Record # 2092990
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1888-10-25
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: First published in Le Gaulois, 25 October 1888
Synopsis: The narrator makes the acquaintance of M. Milial who immediately charms him and feels like an old friend, although it is hard to account for why. Visting Milial later, he sees a portrait of a woman who has an even more powerful mysterious attraction, almost supernatural; learning that this is Milial's late mother, he reflects that he knows where Milial got his charm from.
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Year Language Title
1910Translated by an uncredited author, revised by Dora Knowlton Ranous (1910); and by Marjorie Laurie (1923).
English A Portrait

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Monsieur Parent, Queen Hortense, Fascination, and Other Stories 1910-00-00 Guy de Maupassant P. F. Collier & Son (The Miromesnil Edition of Guy de Maupassant #8)     [382]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Useless Beauty and Other Stories 1926-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Alfred A. Knopf (The Collected Novels and Stories of Guy de Maupassant #16)      
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant 1955-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Hanover House  
$5.95?$: US dollar
xvii+
1339
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories 1962-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Everyman's Library (UK)     xiv+
335
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Contes fantastiques complets 1973-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes fantastiques complets 1976-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
    380+
[4]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Contes fantastiques complets 1983-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout - Fantastique?Bibliotheque Marabout - Fantastique
#464)
2-501-00040-4   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Contes fantastiques complets 1996-01-00 Guy de Maupassant Marabout (
Bibliothèque Marabout?Bibliotheque Marabout
#9001)
2-501-00948-7   384
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
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