The story opens with Abbe Marginan, a priest who loves the natural world. But, he disgusts the women, the nuns and everything about them. He gets angry when he finds out that his niece has a lover and they will be meeting under moonlight.
Born on 5 August, 1850, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.
Born on 5 August, 1850, Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.
Book Summary
The story opens with Abbe Marginan, a priest who loves the natural world. But, he disgusts the women, the nuns and everything about them. He gets angry when he finds out that his niece has a lover and they will be meeting under moonlight.
Guy de Maupassant
