A Life

Original title: Une vie (Français)

Guy de Maupassant

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Jeanne leaves the convent full of expectation, and life takes back, one by one, every promise: Maupassant's first novel, and perhaps his cruellest.

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) brought the short story and the short novel to an economy of means that still defines French prose.

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