A Day in the Country and Other Stories

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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