- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; Reprint edition (10 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192838636
- ISBN-13: 978-0192838636
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 928,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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LAST summer I rented a small country house on the banks of the Seine several leagues downstream from Paris and each evening I travelled down to spend the night there. Read the first page
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