Name: The Necklace
Rating: 3.6 (20 reviews)
ISBN: 9781568461939

Guy de Maupassant

After devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace which they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts.

The Necklace

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"She so much longer to please, be envied, be fascinating and sort after."

"She danced with intoxication, with passion, made drunk by pleasure, forgetting all, in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness composed of all this homage, of all this admiration, of all these awakened desires, and of that sense of complete victory which is so sweet to woman's heart."

"...and the terrified by the outlook of the future, the blackest of despair about to close around him, by prospect of all the deprivations of body and tortures of the spirit he went to claim the new necklace."

"...who knows? who can say? How strange and unpredictable life is. How little there is between happiness and misery!"

Artine Artinian

Writer Guy de Maupassants ironic tale of a beautiful but poor womans longing for a more glamorous life leads to a borrowed necklaceand a most unfortunate misunderstanding.

Perfect definition of what a short story should be: A great character sketch of the protagonist, a major flaw, redemption and a very dramatic and iconic twist. The story is basically about Mathilde Loisel, a middle class woman with a very materialistic mindset and pursue for life who is married with a very humble working class husband. The story takes shape when she borrows a diamond necklace from her rich friend for a party she is going to attend. I have nothing to complain about with this book, great plot great execution and both halves were great.

Aarush Arora

Perfect definition of what a short story should be: A great character sketch of the protagonist, a major flaw, redemption and a very dramatic and iconic twist. The story is basically about Mathilde Loisel, a middle class woman with a very materialistic mindset and pursue for life who is married with a very humble working class husband. The story takes shape when she borrows a diamond necklace from her rich friend for a party she is going to attend. I have nothing to complain about with this book, great plot great execution and both halves were great.

absolutely recommended!

So simple yet so mesmerizing. A lie, a deception or simply being scared can change your life over the smallest things. Such an interesting short story.

Larissa Campos

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3.5 /5 stars
lets just say that i would've liked it more if i it wasn't for a literary reading class :)
With that being said, it wasn't the best short story that I've read but it still is an enjoyable read, although the characters were stupid and i hated all of them very much, but the concept of the book saved it and i appreciate that.

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