THE NECKLACE AND OTHER TALES (Guy de Maupassant) - August 20/12

I picked this up because I wanted to read three of the short stories, as they were used in an Ophuls movie, but enjoyed them enough that I read the rest. There's a real hit-and-miss vibe here, as some stories (The Necklace, for one) are quite entertaining while others (The Tellier House) are overlong and kind of pointless. Still, the stories are, generally speaking, pretty interesting and surprisingly modern. **1/2 out of ****