A Parisian Affair and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant

Thirty-three tales of the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature Set in the Paris of society women and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that Guy de Maupassant knew as a child, these stories repeatedly lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty. They focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. Through these relationships, Maupassant explores... Zobrazit více