Pierre and Jean

Guy de Maupassant

⏱ 7 minFrench classic

A family friend dies and leaves his whole fortune to one brother alone — and the slighted elder son's jealousy hardens into a suspicion that eats through everything the family thought it knew. Maupassant's tautest, most pitiless novel.

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