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Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) Version 2

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Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) [https://librivox.org/author/436] Translated by Albert M. Cohn McMaster (1888 - 1946) [https://librivox.org/author/7040] Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre" ("Boule de Suif and Other Stories of the War"). John Ford said that his film Stagecoach was in many ways a western rewrite of Boule de Suif. (Summary by Wikipedia) Genre(s): General Fiction Language: English Keyword(s): maupassant [https://librivox.org/keywords/2429] (3)

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