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The Guy de Maupassant Library

The Guy de Maupassant Library

Di: Guy de Maupassant
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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.Public domain
Episodi
  • Ball of Fat Part 3

    Ball of Fat Part 3
    Aug 10 2026
    In which a group of travellers, detained by a Prussian officer in a snowbound inn, engage in subtle negotiations and shifting attitudes amid the pressing tension of their confinement. The courtesan Boule de Suif, at the centre of their predicament, becomes the focus of both scorn and reluctant dependence as the others delicately press her towards a difficult decision with a mix of genteel persuasion and social calculation.
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    35 min
  • Ball of Fat Part 2

    Ball of Fat Part 2
    Aug 8 2026
    In which a diverse group of travellers, united by circumstance rather than camaraderie, endure the rigours of a war-torn journey and find brief solace in shared provisions and spirited debate amidst the shadow of an occupying presence. They arrive at an inn where an officious authority exercises arbitrary power, casting a pall of unease over their stay and kindling quiet indignation among the company.
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    29 min
  • Ball of Fat Part 1

    Ball of Fat Part 1
    Aug 6 2026
    In which the weary remnants of a defeated army and the townsfolk of Rouen brace themselves beneath the shadow of imminent occupation, their lives quietly interrupted by the arrival of foreign troops and the silent dread of invasion. Amidst this tense stillness, a diverse group of travellers, from nobles to a spirited courtesan, embark on a slow, snowbound journey, their human foibles and social distinctions revealed in the intimate confines of a snow-laden coach.
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    41 min
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