Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893
Biographical note
Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. His short stories are characterised by their economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads within them are neatly resolved. He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry.
Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L'Héritage" and Bel-Ami aim to recreate Third Republic France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories (notably "Le Horla", cited as an inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu", and "Qui sait?") describe apparently supernatural phenomena. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and this interest is reflected in his fiction.
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Guy de Maupassant: a study, by Pol Neveux
Works


The History of a Heart (Une vie) [1883]

The history of a scoundrel (Bel-Ami) [1885]

Mont Oriol / A romance of Auvergne [1887]

Pierre and Jean (Pierre et Jean) [1887/1888]

Strong as Death (Fort comme la mort) [1889]

Notre Coeur / A Coquette's Love [1890]
Works of Guy de Maupassant
Original Short stories
Short Stories listed Alphabetically
Abandoned
The Accent
The Accursed Bread (Le Pain
Maudit)
The Adopted Son (Aux champs) [
1884]
An Adventure (Une
Aventure)
An Adventure in Paris (Une
Aventure Parisienne)
After (Apres)
Alexandre
All Over (Fini)
Allouma
Always Lock the Door! (Le
verrou)
The Apparition (Spectre)
An Artifice (Une Ruse)
An Artist
The Assignation (Le
Rendez-vous)
At Sea
The Avenger (Le
Vengeur)
The Awakening
Babette
The Bandmaster’s Sister
The Baroness
The Bed
The Beggar
Belhomme’s Beast
Bellflower
Bertha
Beside a Dead Man (Beside
Schopenhauer’s Corpse)
The Blind Man
Boitelle
Boule de Suif [1880]
The Cake
The Carnival of Love
The Carter’s Wench
Caught in the Very Act
Caught
Châli
The Child
The Christening
Christmas Eve
Clair de lune [1883]
Clochette
The Clown
A Cock Crowed
Coco
The Colonel’s Ideas
Confessing (L'aveu)
The Confession
The Corsican Bandit
Countess Satan
A Country Excursion (Une
partie de campagne) [1881]
A Coup d’Etat (An Affair of
State)
Coward
Crash
A Cremation
The Cripple
A Dead Woman’s Secret
The Debt
A Deer Park in the
Provinces
Delila
Denis
The Devil
The Diamond Necklace (La Parure)
[1884]
The Diary of a Madman
Discovery
The Dispenser of Holy Water
Divorce (A fair exchange)
A Divorce Case
The Donkey
The Door
The Double Pins
The Dowry
Dreams
The Drunkard
Duchoux
A Duel
The Effeminates
The Englishman of Etretat
Epiphany
An Exotic Prince
False Alarm
The False Gems
A Family Affair
A Family
Farewell! (Growing Old) (Adieu
!) [1884]
The Farmer’s Wife
Fascination
A Fashionable Woman
The Father
Father Matthew
Father Milon (Le Père Milon)
[1899, posthume]
A Father’s Confession
The First Snowfall
A Fishing Excursion (Deux Amis) [1883]
The Fishing Hole (Le Trou)
Fly (Boatman's Reminiscence)
(Mouche) [1890]
Forgiveness
Francesca and Carlotta
Rondoli (Les Sœurs Rondoli) [1884]
Friend Joseph
Friend Patience
The Gamekeeper
Ghosts
A Good Match
The Grave
The Hand
Happiness
Hautot Senior and Hautot
Junior
He?
The Hermaphrodite
The Hermit
His Avenger
The Hole
An Honest Ideal
The Horla, or Modern Ghosts
(Le Horla) [1887]
The Horrible
How He Got the Legion of
Honor
A Humble Drama
The Ill-Omened Groom
The Impolite Sex
Indiscretion
In His Sweetheart’s
Livery
In the sunlight (Au soleil) [1884]
In Vagabondia (La Vie errante) [1890]
Inheritance (L’Héritage) [1884]
The Inn
In the Spring
In the Wood
The Jennet
Jeroboam
Joseph
Julie Romain
Julot’s Opinion
Kind Girls
The Kiss
La Morillonne
The Lancer’s Wife
Lasting Love
The Last Step
Legend of Mont St. Michel (La
Légende du Mont-Saint-Michel) [1882]
The Legion of Honor
Letter Found on a Drowned
Man
Letter from a Madman (Lettre d'un fou) [1885]
Lieutenant Lare’s Marriage
Lilie Lala
The Little Cask
Little Louise Roqué
A Lively Friend
The Log
Love
The Love of Long Ago
Madame Baptiste
Madame Hermet
Madame Husson’s “Rosier” (Le
Rosier de Madame Husson) [1888]
Madame Parisse
Madame Tellier’s
Establishment (La Maison Tellier) [1881]
Mademoiselle Cocotte
Mademoiselle Fifi
[1882]
Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Pearl
Mad
The Mad Woman (La Folle)
[1882]
Madness (Un fou ?) [1884]
The Magic Couch
Magnetism
(La Main gauche) [1889]
Mamma Stirling
The Man with the Blue
Eyes
The Man with the Dogs
Margot’s Tapers
The Marquis De Fumerol
The Marquis
Marroca
Martine
The Mask (Le Masque)
A Meeting
A Mesalliance
Minuet
Miss Harriet [1884]
Misti
The Model (Femme
d'artiste)
Moiron
Monsieur Parent [1885]
Moonlight
The Moribund
Mother and Daughter
Mother and Son
Mother and Son!!!
A Mother of Monsters
Mother Sauvage
The Mountain Pool
The Mountebanks
The Mustache
My Landlady
My Twenty-Five Days
My Uncle Jules
My Uncle Sosthenes
My Wife
The New Sensation
A New Year’s Gift
A Night in Whitechapel
No Quarter
A Normandy Joke
The Odalisque of
Senichou
Old Amable
Old Judas
The Old Maid
Old Mongilet
One Evening
On the River (Sur l’eau)
[1888]
The Orderly
The Orphan
Our Letters
A Parricide
The Parrot
A Passion
The Patron
Paul’s Mistress
The Peddler (Le Colporteur)
[1900]
The Penguins’ Rock
A Philosopher
The Piece of String (La
Ficelle) [1883]
Pierre et Jean
Pierrot
The Port (Le Port)
[1889]
A Portrait
The Prisoners
Profitable Business
Queen Hortense
A Queer Night in Paris
The Question of Latin
The Rabbit
The Read One and the
Other
A Recollection
Regret
The Relic
The Relics
Relics of the Past
Rosalie Prudent
Rose
A Rupture
Rust
Saint Anthony
A Sale
Saved
The Sequel to a Divorce
The Signal
Simon’s Papa
A Sister’s Confession
The Snipe (Contes de la
bécasse) [1883]
The Son
The Spasm
Stable Perfume
The Story of a Farm-Girl
(Histoire d’une fille de ferme) [1889]
A Stroll
The Substitute
Suicides
Sundays of a Bourgeois (Les
Dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris) [1900]
Sympathy
The Test
That Costly Ride
That Pig of a Morin (Ce
cochon de Morin) [1882]
Theodule Sabot’s Confession
“The Terror”
The Thief
Timbuctoo
Toine
Tombstones
A Tress of Hair (La
Chevelure)
The Trip of Le Horla
True Story (Histoire vraie)
The Twenty-Five Francs of
the Mother-Superior
Two Friends
Two Little Soldiers
Ugly
The Umbrella
An Uncomfortable Bed
Under the Yoke
Une Vie
An Unfortunate Likeness
The Unknown
The Upstart
A Useful House
Useless Beauty (L’Inutile
Beauté) [1890]
A Vagabond
A Vendetta (Une Vendetta)
[1883]
The Venus of Braniza
The Viaticum
Violated
Virtue in the Ballet
Waiter, a “Bock”
Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure
The Wardrobe
A Warning Note
Was It a Dream?
A Wedding Gift
What Was Really the Matter
with Andrew
The White Lady
Who Knows?
Why?
A Widow
Wife and Mistress
A Wife’s Confession
The Will
The Wolf
Woman’s Wiles
The Wooden Shoes
Words of Love
The Wreck
The Wrong House
Yvette [1884]
Yvette Samoris


