Includes The Necklace, Butterball, The Tellier House, On the
Water, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mask, The Inn, A Day in the Country, The
Hand, The Jewels, The Model, The Entity (The Horla)
These stories--poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of
lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness--display
the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation
by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant's remarkable range, his
technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create
whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages