{"product_id":"the-horla-the-art-of-the-novella","title":"The Horla (The Art of the Novella)","description":"Our woe is upon us.  This chilling tale of one mans 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 Maupassants mental illness. While such speculation is murky  it is clear that de Maupassanthailed alongside Chekhov as father of the short storywas at the peak of his powers in this innovative precursor of first-person psychological fiction. Indeed  he worked for years on The Horlas themes and form  first drafting it as Letter from a Madman  then telling it from a doctors 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.  The Art of The Novella Series  Too 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 literatures 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":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44813664026677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0976140748","price":656.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0976140748_2c4042b1-7fdd-4096-9199-6e4d3280e859.jpg?v=1768627159","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-horla-the-art-of-the-novella","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}