Olivier Bertin, a celebrated portrait painter, has been the lover of the Countess de Guilleroy for many years. When her daughter Annette returns from the country looking exactly as her mother did in youth, Bertin finds his old passion transferred to the girl, and both he and the countess are consumed by a double jealousy of age and time.
Maupassant’s subtle, melancholy novel of love and growing old in fashionable Paris. Download the free EPUB.