Old Roland, a retired Paris jeweller, has settled at Le Havre to fish with his two grown sons, the restless doctor Pierre and the placid lawyer Jean. When a family friend dies and leaves his whole fortune to Jean alone, Pierre’s jealousy turns into a creeping suspicion about the past and about his own mother.
Maupassant’s tightest psychological novel, a short study of envy and family secrets. Download the free EPUB.