Dear friend/Милый друг

Guy de Maupassant made a significant contribution to the world literature. His work was extremely fruitful: for twenty years he managed to publish more than fifteen collections of short stories, his famous novels, several books of travel essays and other works. The novel "Dear Friend" published here became one of the symbols of the epoch. This is the most powerful and socially pointed novel of Maupassant. Through the history of Georges Duroy, who paves himself "the way up," the true morals of the higher French society are revealed, the spirit of venality prevailing in all its spheres, contributes to the fact that an ordinary and immoral person, such as Maupassant's hero, easily achieves success and wealth ...

The Book is in Russian