A Day in the Country and Other Stories

by Guy de Maupassant, David Coward

Overview

In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassant's most famous tales, "The Necklace," and "Le Horla," a tale with strange parallels to the author's own descent into madness, as well as many other provocative and often chilling works—spanning the whole range of human experiences—from low farce, to high tragedy.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199555789
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.72(w) x 5.24(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1050L (what's this?)

About the Author

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a prolific French writer best remembered as a master of the short story and a father of the genre. He delighted in clever plotting and served as a model for later short story practitioners through favorites such as "The Necklace," "The Horla," "The False Gems," and "Useless Beauty." Maupassant wrote some 300 short stories, as well as six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.