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The Necklace
Author:
Guy de Maupassant (43)
Reader: Narek Baghdasaryan (278)
Category:
Prose (465)
Short story (590)
French literature (45)
Age Recommendation: 16+
In late nineteenth-century Paris, Mathilde Loisel, the wife of a modest clerk, longs for luxury, elegance, and acceptance in high society. An invitation to a ball offers her the chance to appear, for one evening, as the woman she has always imagined herself to be. Yet the pursuit of outward splendor and social admiration draws Mathilde and her husband into a severe trial, revealing the cost of vanity, illusion, and deceptive appearances.