A Family Affair

"A Family Affair" is a wonderful novella by the worldwide famous French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893). Mr. Caravan is a clerk in the Admiralty. Work is meaning of life for him, he does not see or hear anything except his papers. He is short of luck - at the laps of thirty years of slave service he receives a symbolic order, but still does not earn an advance in office. But these are not a...