Alien Hearts

Alien HeartsBy: Guy de Maupassant Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Andr Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants

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she learns that nothing is as simple as it seems in her stories—not even her own past

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