One spring Maupassant sailed his yacht along the Mediterranean coast and kept a daily journal of what he saw and thought. Woken before dawn by his skipper Bernard, he sets off from Antibes and Cannes past Saint-Tropez and the islands, musing on society, war, solitude and death, and records a night sitting with a frightened woman near death.
An intimate, melancholy travel diary from the great short-story writer. Download the free EPUB.