Book cover with coloured overlay in the colours of the French tricolor, showing a large woman in a negligee smiling to the camera

I was meant to read this short story a lifetime ago during A-Level French, but ducked it. Finally it caught up with me (in translation), and the cruelty is breathtaking. Not much, it appears, has changed. #booksky #Maupassant #Butterball #BouleDeSuif