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The Guy de Maupassant Library

by Guy de Maupassant

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About the show

Behind every polished door, beneath every silk gown, inside every provincial inn and Parisian drawing room, Guy de Maupassant found the secret machinery of desire, vanity, cruelty, and fate. The Guy de Maupassant Library presents his books read in full: stories of ambition and ruin, love and deception, war and cowardice, laughter sharpened into tragedy, and ordinary lives overturned by a single merciless detail. Listen, and enter a world where society smiles, fortune lies, and the human heart is never quite innocent.