A Day in the Country and Other Stories

In addition to the poignant title story, this selection of 27 comic and cruel stories includes The Necklace and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness.

Out on the River

Simon's Dad

Family Life

A Farm Girl's Story

A Day in the Country

Marroca

Country Livign

Riding out

A Railway Story

Old Milon

Our Chum Patience

A Coup d'Etat

The Christening

Coco

A Coward

The Patron

The Umbrella

The Necklace

Strolling

Bed 29

The Gamekeeper

The Little Roque Girl

Mademoiselle Pearl

Rosalie Prudent

Our Spot

Clochette

Le Horla

• Author
• Guy de Maupassant, David Coward

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780192838636

• Genres
• classics, fiction, france, literature

• Release date
• 1998