Une Vie

Guy de Maupassant

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

A convent-bred girl marries for love and watches every illusion die, an unfaithful husband, a worthless son, a life stripped bare, until a servant's plain wisdom remains. Maupassant's quietly devastating first novel.

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