Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy ?A Parisian Affair? or the touchingly ironical ?The Jewels?; between siblings, as in ?At Sea?; and between former partners, as in ?Encounter.? They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in ?Boule de Suif, ? its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant's stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy ?A Parisian Affair? or the touchingly ironical ?The Jewels?; between siblings, as in ?At Sea?; and between former partners, as in ?Encounter.? They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in ?Boule de Suif, ? its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant's stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty
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