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Useless Beauty

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by Guy de Maupassant
Narrated by Walter Zimmerman
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46 mins
RELEASE DATE

18/11/2008
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Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. In this Useless Beauty ( L'Inutile Beauté ) a woman who is being kept at home by a jealous husband as a "trophy," finally reaches her limit to the astonishment of her husband.

(P)1987 Jimcin Recordings

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