Ebook: A day in the country and other stories
Author: Maupassant Guy de, Maupassant Guy de, Coward David
- Tags: Maupassant Guy de -- 1850-1893 -- Translations into English. France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Maupassant Guy de -- 1850-1893. Manners and customs. France. Short stories in French 1848-1900 - English texts French fiction -- Short stories
- Series: Oxford World's Classics
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, France, Oxford, France
- Language: English, French
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This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands 'like a lion in the path'
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