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The Old Man (short story)

  • Original French Title: Le vieux
  • Also Published As: The Moribund
  • Type: Short Story

The Old Man is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant. - AsNotedIn

The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard. Under the grass, which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy noise, and the apple trees, loaded with apples, were dropping their pale green fruit in the dark green grass.
Guy de Maupassant, The Old Man




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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1884/01/06 Guy de Maupassant Author "The Old Man" by Guy de Maupassant is published in Le Gaulois.
1884/01/06 Le Gaulois Publisher "The Old Man" by Guy de Maupassant is published in Le Gaulois.

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Particulars for The Old Man (short story):
Narrative Arts Death
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction

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Original Language: French



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