Leave Well Enough Alone
Broadcast: September 3, 1980
Added: Aug 15 2016
The great French writer Guy de Maupassant was intrigued by jewelry. He felt that love for precious stones ranked among the highest of all human vanities, and to him, human vanity was the very staff of his creative life. Indeed de Maupassant's 'The Necklace', is probably the greatest short story ever written - not quite so well known as another de Maupassant tale that deals with valuable gems, and just as intriguing as the story itself, is his account of how he came to write it...