Short stories by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). A protégé of Gustave Flaubert, he was a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies in disillusioned, even pessimistic terms. “I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”.

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