A day in the country and other stories, paperback/guy de maupassant

In addition to the title story, this selection of twenty-seven stories includes one of Maupassants most famous tales, The Necklace, and Le Horla, a tale with strange parallels to the authors 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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