{"_id":"62a2c5ef75e8850e52faf006","title":"Miss Harriet","author":"Guy de Maupassant","code":"miss-harriet","words":7553,"publish_year":1893,"publish_source":"Le Gaulois","publish_edition":"Ser. 3, No. 357","publish_scan":"https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5246976","image":"paintbrush.jpg","image_alt":"A hand delicately holding a paintbrush. Graphite filter.","genres":["tragedy","literary"],"blurb":"In her eye there lurked a species of insanity, an insanity at once mystical and violent; and even more, a fever, an aggravated longing, impatient and impotent, for the unattained and unattainable.","description":"A man tells a story of an older woman he met while travelling the countryside. She tends to keep to herself, but upon the man showing her one of his paintings, asks to see him paint.","original_language":"French","unique_cover":"A man painting as a woman watches from up a hill","cover_source":"Miss Harriet","cover_link":"https://archive.org/details/missharrie00maup/page/32/mode/2up","rating":4,"translators":["Albert M. C. McMaster","A. E. Henderson","MME. Quesada","Others"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"tragedy","title":"Best of Tragedy","collection_type":"genre"}]}