Chinese secondary school language textbooks. The following works were inspired in part by "The Necklace": "Paste" (1899), a short story by Henry James in which the twist ending is reversed "Mr. Know-All" (1925) and "A String of Beads" (1943), short stories by Somerset Maugham that both revolve around the price of a necklace "The Diamond Pendant" in Impact #1, E.C. Comics, March/April 1955; adaptation by Carl Wessler, illustrated by Graham Ingels Doctor Innocentanu (2012), a Malayalam family drama film is inspired from The Necklace but have some changes. Vennila Veedu (2014), a Tamil family drama uses a similar story as its main theme. The subplot of the season 4 episode 13 of Mom ("A Bouncy Castle and an Aneurysm" OAD: 9 Feb, 2017) is a comedic version of the story with Anna Faris' character losing the necklace belonging to her wealthy friend. In Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor (1969), one of the characters, a writer, claims she has written a short story entitled "La Rivière du diamants", which mimics Maupassant's "The Necklace". The moment in which this occurs is set in the book to be around 1884, the year in which Maupassant actually published his short story. References External links The Necklace – Annotated text aligned to Common Core Standards Short stories by Guy de Maupassant Short stories adapted into films 1884 short stories Works originally published in Le Gaulois