A lifetime

Author: Guy de Maupassant
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Publication Date: 2000-05-02
Features: How should a life be lived, and how does it pass? This is the true lifelong challenge faced by women. Maupassant excels at portraying women through life. This book selects four of his works, all of whose plots revolve around this central theme. Based on his understanding of the era where debauchery was rampant, Maupassant often depicts love as a deception or a trap in his novels, issuing a warning like "Beware of the paint" with the caution "Beware of love." This book is part of the "World Literature Library," telling the pitiful life of a woman—a short, joy-filled, yet filled with multiple disappointments life—a life severely wounded by ordinary and common hardships. Throughout her life, she clings to an unwavering hope, yet first suffers deception from her husband, then from her son, and finally, with a tragically naive belief, places her hope on her little granddaughter. If the little one does not die young, she might still be disappointed.