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The Horla (Melville House)

✍ Scribed by de Maupassant, Guy

Book ID: 107910078
Publisher: Melville House
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 123 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781612192468

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✦ Synopsis

Our woe is upon us.

This chilling tale of one man's descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant's mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear that de Maupassant--hailed alongside Chekhov as father of the short story--was at the peak of his powers in this innovative precursor of first-person psychological fiction. Indeed, he worked for years on The Horla 's themes and form, first drafting it as "Letter from a Madman," then telling it from a doctor's point of view, before finally releasing the terrified protagonist to speak for himself in its devastating final version. In a brilliant new translation, all three versions appear here as a single volume for the first time.

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