Useless Beauty: A Collection of Novellas
4 hrs. 25 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Guy de Maupassant
Author
Guy de Maupassant
Narrator
Olga Barinova
Narrator
Olga Barinova
Description
Guy de Maupassant is France’s leading novelist, a master of storytelling with an unexpected ending.
Hardly any other writer so sincerely believed that all good—and the very meaning of life—lies in a woman, in love… and hardly any writer ever showed with such clarity and precision all the terrible sides of that very phenomenon which seemed to him the highest and the greatest good life could offer.
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Foreword to Guy de Maupassant’s works)
Contents:
The Woodcock
That Pig, Moreene
The Madwoman
Pierrot
Minuet
Fear
A Norman Joke
Sabots
The Chair-Mender
At Sea
A Norman Man
A Will
In the Fields
The Cock Crows
The Son
“Saint Anthony”
The Adventures of Walter Schnuffs
Music:
Natalya Pervina / Waltz-Mood
Hardly any other writer so sincerely believed that all good—and the very meaning of life—lies in a woman, in love… and hardly any writer ever showed with such clarity and precision all the terrible sides of that very phenomenon which seemed to him the highest and the greatest good life could offer.
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Foreword to Guy de Maupassant’s works)
Contents:
The Woodcock
That Pig, Moreene
The Madwoman
Pierrot
Minuet
Fear
A Norman Joke
Sabots
The Chair-Mender
At Sea
A Norman Man
A Will
In the Fields
The Cock Crows
The Son
“Saint Anthony”
The Adventures of Walter Schnuffs
Music:
Natalya Pervina / Waltz-Mood
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