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.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Boule de Suif (1880)
A Life (1883)
A Woman's Life (1883)
Bel-Ami (1885)
Pierre et Jean (1888)
Alien Hearts (1889)
Strong as Death (1889)
The Odalisque Of Senichou (1903)
A Life (1883)
A Woman's Life (1883)
Bel-Ami (1885)
Pierre et Jean (1888)
Alien Hearts (1889)
Strong as Death (1889)
The Odalisque Of Senichou (1903)
Omnibus
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)
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)
The Necklace and Other Stories (2015)
Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works (2016)
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (2020)
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)
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)
The Necklace and Other Stories (2015)
Guy de Maupassant's Selected Works (2016)
Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (2020)
Chapbooks
Novellas
The Father
Useless Beauty
A Widow
Yvette
Simon's Papa (1879)
Two Friends (1883)
Rose (1884)
The Necklace (1884)
Toine (1885)
The Wolf (1889)
Who Knows? (1890)
The Artist (1903)
Madame Hermet (1910)
A Family (1914)
Miss Harriet (1951)
Useless Beauty
A Widow
Yvette
Simon's Papa (1879)
Two Friends (1883)
Rose (1884)
The Necklace (1884)
Toine (1885)
The Wolf (1889)
Who Knows? (1890)
The Artist (1903)
Madame Hermet (1910)
A Family (1914)
Miss Harriet (1951)
Non fiction
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)
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 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 | |||
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 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 | |||
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 | |||
Saint Anthony | |||
A Sale | |||
The Sequel to a Divorce | |||
The Snipe | |||
A Son | |||
The Spastic Mannerism | |||
The Test | |||
That Pig, Morin | |||
Theodule Sabot's Confession | |||
The Tomb | |||
A Traveller's Notes | |||
Travelling | |||
The Twitch | |||
Two Little Soldiers | |||
An Unfortunate Likeness | |||
Waiter, A "Bock" | |||
A Walk | |||
Walter Scnaff's Adventure | |||
What the Colonel Thought | |||
The Will | |||
The Window [short story] | |||
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) | |||
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) | |||
Vendetta (1964) |
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