A review by veelaughtland
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

4.0

I really enjoy how strangely modern Guy de Maupassant's stories are - the subject matter can be quite risqué at times, which feels really fresh given he was writing in the 1800s. There is a lot of levity to his stories, but also a fair amount of darkness that lurks behind some of them, particularly the ones he was writing later in his career while struggling with his own health issues. Some of the stories didn't really hit, but there were many that had me laughing or shocked, and many that fully pulled me into their world. I'd thoroughly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of short stories but maybe hasn't tried any classics yet.