A Day in the Country and Other Stories

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