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Guy de Maupassant

1850–1893

Best known for sharp, unsettling stories like "Boule de Suif" and "The Necklace," this French master of the short story had a gift for turning everyday life into something surprising, ironic, or quietly haunting. His writing is clear, vivid, and still feels strikingly modern.

88 Audiobooks

Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 04

by Guy de Maupassant

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1

by Guy de Maupassant

Le Horla

by Guy de Maupassant

Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel

by Guy de Maupassant

Pierre and Jean

by Guy de Maupassant

Contes du jour et de la nuit

by Guy de Maupassant

Boule de Suif

by Guy de Maupassant

A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 01

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 01

by Guy de Maupassant

Une vie

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories, Complete, Volumes 1-13

by Guy de Maupassant

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 07

by Guy de Maupassant

The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 03

by Guy de Maupassant

Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour

by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, Jean du Rébrac

Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man)

by Guy de Maupassant

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4

by Guy de Maupassant

Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories

by Guy de Maupassant

Contes de la Becasse

by Guy de Maupassant

Pierre et Jean

by Guy de Maupassant

Strong as Death

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 06

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 02

by Guy de Maupassant

Afloat (Sur l'eau)

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 03

by Guy de Maupassant

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 10

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 04

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 08

by Guy de Maupassant

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 14

by Guy de Maupassant

Mons Spes, et novellæ aliæ

by E. Parmalee (Ezra Parmalee) Prentice, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Guy de Maupassant, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 11

by Guy de Maupassant

Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Guy de Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 23

by Guy de Maupassant

Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel

by Guy de Maupassant

Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel

by Guy de Maupassant

Quotes and Images From The Short Stories of Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 13

by Guy de Maupassant

La Femme de Paul

by Guy de Maupassant

Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 13

by Guy de Maupassant

L'inutile beauté

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 18

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 08

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 11

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 09

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 05

by Guy de Maupassant

Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 10

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 20

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 21

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 06

by Guy de Maupassant

Original Short Stories — Volume 12

by Guy de Maupassant

Claire de Lune

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 19

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 07

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 22

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 17

by Guy de Maupassant

Monsieur Parent, et autres histoires courtes

by Guy de Maupassant

Miss Harriet

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 24

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 12

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 09

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 02

by Guy de Maupassant

Parent úr

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 16

by Guy de Maupassant

La Maison Tellier

by Guy de Maupassant

Mlle Fifi: Nouveaux Contes

by Guy de Maupassant

Yvette

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 05

by Guy de Maupassant

La Main Gauche

by Guy de Maupassant

Kaunis ystävä

by Guy de Maupassant

Valittuja novelleja II

by Guy de Maupassant

Fort comme la mort

by Guy de Maupassant

Valittuja novelleja I

by Guy de Maupassant

Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 15

by Guy de Maupassant

The Sisters Rondoli, and Other Stories

by Guy de Maupassant

La petite roque

by Guy de Maupassant

La vie errante

by Guy de Maupassant

Elämän tarina

by Guy de Maupassant

Miss Harriet

by Guy de Maupassant

Hätähuuto y.m. kertomuksia

by Guy de Maupassant

Luja kuin kuolema

by Guy de Maupassant

Veljekset

by Guy de Maupassant

About the author

Born in Normandy in 1850, he became one of the great French writers of the nineteenth century. He studied law in Paris, served during the Franco-Prussian War, and later worked as a civil servant while developing his writing under the influence of Gustave Flaubert.

His breakthrough came with "Boule de Suif" in 1880, and over the next decade he wrote hundreds of short stories as well as novels including Une Vie, Bel-Ami, and Pierre et Jean. Readers have long admired the way he combined plain, elegant style with keen observation of class, desire, fear, and human weakness.

His life was short and troubled by illness, and he died in 1893 at the age of 42. Even so, his work left an enormous mark on modern fiction, especially the short story, where his economy, irony, and emotional precision remain hugely influential.