[Public Domain Review] Julian Barnes on When Maupassant met Swinburne

[Public Domain Review]

Julian Barnes on when a young Guy de Maupassant was invited to lunch
at the holiday cottage of Algernon Swinburne. A flayed human hand,
pornography, the serving of monkey meat, and inordinate amounts of
alcohol, all made for a truly bizzarre Anglo-French encounter.

… and to accompany the article a new translation by Elliot Lewis of
Maupassant’s “L’Anglais d’Etretat”.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/01/24/an-unlikely-lunch-when-maupassant-met-swinburne/