The author of Le Horla takes us here to late 19th-century Paris , to the capital of pleasures and encounters where intimate dramas unfold: fatal passions, disappointed hopes, joyful adventures that suddenly turn to tragedy. With an uncompromising realism tempered by the tender and poetic images of the "City of Light", Maupassant, without ever taking sides, evokes in these short stories women and men caught in the nets of a life that is rarely controlled.
