ball-of-fat_mtr_librivox Guy de Maupassant audio librivoxaudio audio_bookspoetry opensource_audio <a href="http://librivox.org/">LibriVox</a> recording of Ball-of-Fat by Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne. Read by Michael Thomas Robinson. The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-of-Fat" (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre during which occurs the corruption of a principled prostitute by immoral and hypocritical members of the upper class. The story is set during the occupation of Rouen at the time of the Franco-Prussian War. (Summary by Michael Thomas Robinson) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit <a href="http://librivox.org/">librivox.org</a>. librivox; literature; French http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2007-12-19 09:49:43 info@librivox.org librivoxbooks 2007-12-19 09:55:12 LibriVox Librivox recording of a public-domain text 2007-12-19 10:06:03 librivoxbooks