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The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant

Start date: August 1, 2021

Finish date: August 31, 2021

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Jul 05, 2022 Candace rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, translation, classics

2.5 rounded up because it must be me!

Everyone loves this. I’ll give the main reasons why I do not.

Quick summary without major spoilers-
A woman loves beautiful things and covets them above all else. She uses a “friend” to borrow a diamond necklace. When the woman loses the necklace, she hides the fact from her friend, deceives her by replacing it with a different necklace, and finally she blames her friend for what comes of not telling her the truth straight away. Oh , and the woman who loves be ...more

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Jun 28, 2016 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, audiobook, 2016, short-story-novella, audible-channels

Sort of O.Henry-ish.

Actually, it seems really familiar, and I wonder if I had to read this as part of an anthology in school?

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Dec 20, 2023 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-short-story

“How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!”

I think I read this one in high school or college - it's a classic, no doubt, and can be enjoyed by a reader of just about any age. ...more

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Oct 18, 2019 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories, french-literature, read-2019, fiction-19th-century, audio-books, gutenberg, novellas

From BBC Radio 4:
In Paris, a young woman discovers that scaling the social ladder needs a very delicate balance.

Kathryn Hurlbutt reads Guy de Maupassant's classic short story.

Producer: Rosemary Watts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1990.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...

Free download (in French) available at Project Gutenberg

Free download (in English) available at Project Gutenberg ...more

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