title: The Necklace and Other Tales (Modern Library Classics)
author: Guy De Maupassant
description: &#8220;Slyly intelligent, engaging, hyper-observant of human nature with all its glories, foibles, and fragile pretense, Maupassant&#8217;s stories are as relevant today as when they were first written.&#8221; &#8212;Elizabeth Berg
zlib_text: # WEIRD TALES
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## E. T. A. HOFFMAN
  
  
  _Translated by_
  
  
  ## J. T. BEALBY
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Weird Tales_  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 1885  
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-62011-779-8  
  
  
  Duke Classics  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
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  _[The Cremona Violin](../Text/1516_split_003.html#toc0)_  
  
  
  _[The Fermata](../Text/1516_split_004.html#toc1)_  
  
  
  _[Signor Formica __](../Text/1516_split_005.html#toc2)_  
  
  
  _[The Sand-Man __](../Text/1516_split_006.html#toc3)_  
  
  
  _[The Entail](../Text/1516_split_007.html