{"product_id":"9781612192468","title":"The Horla","description":"\u003cb\u003eOur woe is upon us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis chilling tale of one man’s descent  into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity,  and so \u003ci\u003eThe Horla\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe  Horla\u003c\/i\u003e’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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135310414064,"sku":"9781612192468","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612192468_p0.jpg?v=1763844576","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612192468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}