num_pages: 336
description: 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 RiverSimon's DadFamily LifeA Farm Girl's StoryA Day in the CountryMarrocaCountry LivignRiding outA Railway StoryOld MilonOur Chum PatienceA Coup d'EtatThe ChristeningCocoA CowardThe PatronThe UmbrellaThe NecklaceStrollingBed 29The GamekeeperThe Little Roque GirlMademoiselle PearlRosalie PrudentOur SpotClochetteLe Horla
language: English
title: A Day in the Country and Other Stories
titlecomplete: A Day in the Country and Other Stories
genres: Classics, France, Short Stories, Classic Literature, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 282
publisher: Oxford University Press