Small works

Guy de Maupassant was and remains one of the most widely read and beloved authors in France. His books increased generation of readers. Thanks to the novel "Dear friend" they had discovered the forbidden world of eroticism. The novel "Life", which L. N. Tolstoy praised as "almost the best French novel since Les Miserables Hugo", told them about the lost illusions. An example of unsurpassed psychological insight and literary skill are the numerous novels of Maupassant, beginning with the famous "Donuts", which appeared with astonishing rapidity and with the same rapidity translated into foreign languages. They've amazed readers with an acute sense of observation and depth of penetration into the human soul.