"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"--

"A hardcover edition of a selection of short stories by French writer Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie and originally published in Everyman's Library in 1934. This edition contains a new introduction by Catriona Seth, a bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times"--