{"product_id":"the-necklace-other-stories-by-guy-de-maupassant-folio-society-846","title":"The Necklace \u0026 Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Necklace \u0026amp; Other Stories, by Guy de Maupassant. Re-issue of 1959 edition. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. 14 full-page drawings by Nigel Lambourne. Bound in light green cloth printed with a wrap-around illustrative design by Lambourne. Dark green slipcase. Light green endpapers. Page tops stained green. 23.5x15.5cm. 320pp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together short stories by Guy de Maupassant, one of the great masters of nineteenth-century short fiction. The title story, The Necklace, follows a woman whose desire for social elegance leads to a devastating misunderstanding and one of literature's most famous ironic endings. Throughout the collection, Maupassant writes with economy and psychological insight about ambition, vanity, love, class and the unpredictability of human fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216466952531,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421142499667,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/the-necklace-other-stories-by-guy-de-maupassant-folio-society-846","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}