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Guy de Maupassant

(Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant)
France (1850 - 1893)

Guy de Maupassant was a literary acolyte of Gustave Flaubert. Through Flaubert, de Maupassant befriended the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev and Émile Zola, as well as many of the protagonists of the realistic school. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, "Boule de Suif," which met with an instant and tremendous success. Flaubert characterized it as "a masterpiece that will remain." With good cause -- de Maupassant's tales, whether they're tales of war and brutality like "Mademoiselle Fifi" and "Boule de Suif" or tales of the human heart like "Yvette," speak to a window in the human soul that few can see, and fewer still can speak to.

Novels

Boule de Suif (1880)
A Woman's Life (1883)
Bel-Ami (1885)
Pierre et Jean (1888)
Alien Hearts (1889)
The Odalisque Of Senichou (1903)
Strong as Death (1910)
A Life (1959)
The Necklace (1992)

Omnibus

Necklace / Pearls (2008) (with Isak Dinesen)

Collections

The Works (1903)
The Horla (1911)
Monsieur Parent (1911)
The Complete Works (1917)
The Window (1917)
The Odd Number (1922)
The Dark Side of Guy de Maupassant (1947)
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (1955)
Quintet (1956) (with Aldous Huxley, William Saroyan, Leo Tolstoy and Richard Wright)
The Mountain Inn (1957)
Selected Short Stories (1970)
The Cocotte (1971)
Tales of Supernatural Terror (1972)
The Diary of a Madman (1976)
The Best Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (1986)
A Day in the Country (1990)
The Necklace and Other Short Stories (1992)
Normandy Stories (1995)
Boule de Suif / Mademoiselle Fifi (1996)
The Best Short Stories (1997)
Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (2000)
Original Short Stories (2002)
Selected Writings (2002)
Mademoiselle Fifi and Others (2002)
The Necklace and Other Tales (2003)
Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories (2003)
Mademoiselle Fifi (2004)
A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales (2004)
Original Maupassant Short Stories (2004)
A Parisian Affair (2004)
Countess Satan and Other Tales (2004)
The Old Maid and Other Stories (2006)
The Viaticum and Other Stories (2006)
A Very French Christmas (2017) (with Paul Arene, Francois Copee, Dominique Fabre, Victor Hugo and George Sand)

Chapbooks

The String (1993)
The Devil (1993)
The Hand (1993)

Non fiction

Further Selection of the Chroniques of Guy De Maupassant (2003)

Anthologies containing stories by Guy de Maupassant

A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
The Arrow Book of Horror Stories (1961)
The Vampire (1963)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
Stories Strange and Sinister (1965)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
Points of View (1966)
Terror! (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1970)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Demons of the Night (1973)
A Little Night Reading (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
Victorian Tales of Terror (1974)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1977)
Victorian Nightmares (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1980)
The 19th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1983)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Devilish Doings (1985)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
Horror Stories (1988)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume Two (1989)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
Blood and Roses (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)

Short stories

	An Affair of State
	Alexander
	Allouma
	Am I Insane?
	An Apparition
	The Artist
	The Assassin
	The Baroness
	Bellflower
	Berthe
	Boitelle
	The Castaway
	Checkmate
	The Child
	The Christening
	A Christmas Tale
	A Cock Crowed
	The Colonel's Ideas
	The Confession
	Countess Satan
	A Country Excursion
	A Coup d'Etat
	The Cripple
	The Dead Woman
	Divorce
	A Divorce Case
	The Door
	Duchoux
	Epiphany
	The False Gems
	A Family
	The Father
	The Ghost
	Ghosts
	Guillemot Rock
	The Hair
	Hautot and His Son
	The Hole
	The Hostelry
	Hydrophobia
	In Port
	In the Country
	In the Moonlight
	In Various roles
	The Jewels
	The Keeper
	The Legend of Mont Saint-Michel
	Love
	Madame Hermet
	Madame Husson's May King
	Madame Luneau's Case
	Madame Tellier's Establishment
	Mademoiselle Fifi [short story]
	Mademoiselle Pearl
	The Madman
	Martin's Girl
	The Mask
	A Midnight Feast
	Miss Harriet
	Misti
	The Model
	Moiron
	The Mother of Monsters
	The Mother Superior's Twenty-Five Francs
	Mouche
	My Uncle Jules
	The Necklace [short story]
	A Norman
	The Odyssey of a Prostitute
	Old Boniface's Crime
	Old Judas
	The Olive Orchard
	One Evening
	One Night's Entertainment
	The Orderly
	Our Friends the English
	Our Letters
	The Pardon
	Pierre and Jean
	A Portrait
	The Putter-To-Sleep
	Queen Hortense
	The Rabbit
	The Rendezvous
	The Return
	The Revenge
	The Rival Pins
	Roger's Method
	Rose
	Saint Anthony
	A Sale
	The Sequel to a Divorce
	Simon's Papa
	The Snipe
	A Son
	The Spastic Mannerism
	The Test
	That Pig, Morin
	Theodule Sabot's Confession
	Toine
	The Tomb
	A Traveller's Notes
	Travelling
	The Twitch
	Two Little Soldiers
	An Unfortunate Likeness
	Useless Beauty
	Waiter, A "Bock"
	A Walk
	Walter Scnaff's Adventure
	What the Colonel Thought
	A Widow
	The Will
	The Window [short story]
	Yvette
	On the River (1876)
	Boule de Suif [short story] (1880)
	Fear (1882)
	An Apparition%A Ghost (1883)
	The Hand [short story] (1883)
	He? (1883)
	Mademoiselle Cocotte (1883)
	Two Friends (1883)
	Coco (1884)
	The Head of Hair (1884)
	The Mannerism (1884)
	Mohammed-Fripouille (1884)
	Was He Mad? (1884)
	The Case of Louise Roque (1885)
	The Diary of a Madman [short story] (1885)
	Little Louise Roque (1885)
	The Horla [short story] (1886)
	The Inn (1886)
	Night: A Nightmare (1887)
	Was it a Dream? (1887)
	The Drowned Man (1888)
	At Sea (1889)
	The Blind Man (1889)
	The Dead Girl (1889)
	The Devil [short story] (1889)
	The Mad Woman (1889)
	Mother Savage (1889)
	Night (1889)
	A Night in Paris (1889)
	Old Milon (1889)
	The Smile of Schopenhauer (1889)
	Terror (1889)
	The Wolf (1889)
	Who Knows? (1890)
	Vendetta (1964)

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