Beautiful Friend - Translation - Literary Classics (009)

Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The doormen are all without shirts, sitting astride chairs with straw cushions under the archway of the gate, smoking pipes. The passersby are bareheaded, holding their hats in their hands, walking with listless steps. George Duroy reaches the avenue, and he stops, undecided about what to do next. He had intended to go to the shade of the Champs-élysées and the Boulogne woods to seek some cool breeze, but another desire also draws him, the hope of encountering some romantic adventure. How to meet this adventure? He himself cannot quite explain it, but for three months he has been waiting for it day and night. Although he has occasionally tasted the sweetness of love through his handsome face and charming demeanor, he always longs for more and better...