New audiobook: The Beggar, Guy de Maupassant

Normandy in the late nineteenth century. Nicolas Toussaint, a disabled beggar, has spent years wandering from village to village, surviving on occasional alms and sleeping wherever he can. The peasants, long accustomed to seeing him, offer little sympathy, while hunger steadily narrows his choices. The story examines the fate of a defenseless man pushed beyond society’s protection and the indifference shown toward poverty, humiliation, and need.