Pierre and Jean

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Gustave Caillebotte and Edgar Degas. Two brothers in a Le Havre shipping family, one of whom inherits a fortune from a friend of their late mother. That is the whole engine: a will, and a younger son who begins, slowly and against his will, to do arithmetic about his own family. Flaubert was his mother's friend and made Maupassant...