A Day in the Country and Other Stories

Zusatztext 'excellent'Birmingham Post Klappentext This selection of twenty-seven stories in a lively new translation shows Maupassant as 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. Zusammenfassung This selection of twenty-seven stories in a lively new translation shows Maupassant as 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Includes: Out on the River; Family Life; A Farm Girl's Story; Country Living; Riding Out; A Railway Story; Old Milon; A Coup d'État; The Christening; Coco; A Coward; The Patron; The Umbrella; The Necklace; Strolling; Bed 29; The Gamekeeper; Mademoiselle Pearl; Rosalie; Prudent; Our Spot; Clochette; La Horla

Product details

• Authors: David Coward, Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Guy de/ Coward Maupassant, Guyde Maupassant
• Assisted by: David Coward (Translation), David (Senior Lecturer in French Coward (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780199555789
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955578-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary