Violets on Wednesdays

André Maurois, a classic of French literature of the XX century, the author of the famous romanized biography of Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, etc., considered to be the true master of the psychological novel. However, it is the story throughout life was his beloved genre. In the book "Violet on Wednesdays" includes the stories of different years – masterpieces of short fiction, the amazing painted lyricism, irony, equipped with an unexpected outcome.
Unfortunately, the Russian reader "Violets on Wednesdays" for more than half a century get the for the most part in a very truncated version (with the exception of the 2012 edition of the year is usually printed only a third of the original lineup). So I'm pleased to introduce this pearl strand short stories Maurois, worthy of continuing the brilliant tradition of Balzac, Stendhal, Maupassant.