The Experience of Love

This collection includes short stories by Maupassant, representing a true encyclopedia of the life and morals of France in the last quarter of the 19th century. France of hard-working and cunning peasants, wealthy and prosperous bourgeois, officials most concerned with the eternal question "What will the neighbors say?", cheerful beauties skillfully cheating on their husbands and lovers, shrewd "night butterflies" and dancers, lonely old men who are of no concern to anyone, children just discovering the vast world, happy and unhappy families. And of course, the author could not overlook the theme of love, which invariably occupies a significant place in French literature.