Sur L'eau or On the Face of the Waters (The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy De Maupassant, Vol. 13)

A travel journal in prose, published in 1888, in which Maupassant describes a few days spent cruising along the Mediterranean coast of southern France on his small yacht. Drifting between Cannes and nearby shores, he writes of the sea, the night, the people he meets and the thoughts that come to him in solitude. The tone moves from gentle description to restless, sometimes bitter reflection on love, society and loneliness. It gives a more personal and meditative side of the author than his stories do.