"Tales of the Woodcock" is a collection of stories illustrating the talent and genius of Maupassant in this narrative art. He portrayed with humor, irony and satire small and large faults of his contemporaries. found some recurring themes in his work such as money (greed and greed), madness, love ... The edition "classic Larousse" includes an interesting documentation analyzing these themes and questions after each new but vague and difficult in my opinion.