A Day in the Country and Other Stories
1881
First Published
3.87
Average Rating
185
Number of Pages
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
Avg Rating
3.87
Number of Ratings
304
5 STARS
30%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Guy de Maupassant
Author · 165 books
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
