Pierrot Audiobook By Guy de Maupassant cover art

Pierrot

Preview

Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Pierrot

By: Guy de Maupassant
Narrated by: Oliver Montgomery
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $2.18

Buy for $2.18

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

This is a story from the Normandy Stories collection.

Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in vivid color and with great warmth. Amusing, saucy, and sometimes even farcical they may be, but they are also capable of great pathos, often branching off to end tragically. It is this skilful and affecting blend of tragedy and comedy, of tears and laughter, which make Maupassant's Normandy Stories the enduring favorites they are today.

Public Domain (P)1995 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
Anthologies Classics
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Editorial reviews

Narrator Oliver Montgomery has a knack for revealing details about characters and their motivations through the voices he creates for them. In this short story from Guy de Maupassant, Montgomery expertly blends together indignation, pettiness, remorse, and parsimoniousness for the character of Madame Lefevre, a wealthy but miserly widow who buys a dog - the eponymous Pierrot - after someone has stolen onions from her garden. However, Madame Lefevre is disappointed in Pierrot and throws him down a well. Montgomery unflinchingly narrates the series of events that follow, never flinching away from de Maupassant's satirical look at the bourgeoisie.

What listeners say about Pierrot

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.