A Parisian Affair and Other StoriesA new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth century literature. They focus on the relationships between men and women, as in the poignant fantasy of