"This book [...] that's life itself."

A victim of his education and his dreams, Jeanne Baron daughter in search of happiness, will experience during his adult life - and more or less like all of us, specifically - the disappointments of life with respect to this that one can expect from love, marriage, parents, friendship, his children, religion, etc. One of the great works of Maupassant, with his other novel "Bel Ami" and its new "suet ball" and "Maison Tellier".