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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  • from Wikipedia
  • 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

  1. Abandoned
  2. The Accent
  3. The Accursed Bread (Le Pain Maudit)
  4. The Adopted Son (Aux champs) [ 1884]
  5. An Adventure (Une Aventure)
  6. An Adventure in Paris (Une Aventure Parisienne)
  7. After (Apres)
  8. Alexandre
  9. All Over (Fini)
  10. Allouma
  11. Always Lock the Door! (Le verrou)
  12. The Apparition (Spectre)
  13. An Artifice (Une Ruse)
  14. An Artist
  15. The Assignation (Le Rendez-vous)
  16. At Sea
  17. The Avenger (Le Vengeur)
  18. The Awakening
  19. Babette
  20. The Bandmaster’s Sister
  21. The Baroness
  22. The Bed
  23. The Beggar
  24. Belhomme’s Beast
  25. Bellflower
  26. Bertha
  27. Beside a Dead Man (Beside Schopenhauer’s Corpse)
  28. The Blind Man
  29. Boitelle
  30. Boule de Suif [1880]
  31. The Cake
  32. The Carnival of Love
  33. The Carter’s Wench
  34. Caught in the Very Act
  35. Caught
  36. Châli
  37. The Child
  38. The Christening
  39. Christmas Eve
  40. Clair de lune [1883]
  41. Clochette
  42. The Clown
  43. A Cock Crowed
  44. Coco
  45. The Colonel’s Ideas
  46. Confessing (L'aveu)
  47. The Confession
  48. The Corsican Bandit
  49. Countess Satan
  50. A Country Excursion (Une partie de campagne) [1881]
  51. A Coup d’Etat (An Affair of State)
  52. Coward
  53. Crash
  54. A Cremation
  55. The Cripple
  56. A Dead Woman’s Secret
  57. The Debt
  58. A Deer Park in the Provinces
  59. Delila
  60. Denis
  61. The Devil
  62. The Diamond Necklace (La Parure) [1884]
  63. The Diary of a Madman
  64. Discovery
  65. The Dispenser of Holy Water
  66. Divorce (A fair exchange)
  67. A Divorce Case
  68. The Donkey
  69. The Door
  70. The Double Pins
  71. The Dowry
  72. Dreams
  73. The Drunkard
  74. Duchoux
  75. A Duel
  76. The Effeminates
  77. The Englishman of Etretat
  78. Epiphany
  79. An Exotic Prince
  80. False Alarm
  81. The False Gems
  82. A Family Affair
  83. A Family
  84. Farewell! (Growing Old) (Adieu !) [1884]
  85. The Farmer’s Wife
  86. Fascination
  87. A Fashionable Woman
  88. The Father
  89. Father Matthew
  90. Father Milon (Le Père Milon) [1899, posthume]
  91. A Father’s Confession
  92. The First Snowfall
  93. A Fishing Excursion (Deux Amis) [1883]
  94. The Fishing Hole (Le Trou)
  95. Fly (Boatman's Reminiscence) (Mouche) [1890]
  96. Forgiveness
  97. Francesca and Carlotta Rondoli (Les Sœurs Rondoli) [1884]
  98. Friend Joseph
  99. Friend Patience
  100. The Gamekeeper
  101. Ghosts
  102. A Good Match
  103. The Grave
  104. The Hand
  105. Happiness
  106. Hautot Senior and Hautot Junior
  107. He?
  108. The Hermaphrodite
  109. The Hermit
  110. His Avenger
  111. The Hole
  112. An Honest Ideal
  113. The Horla, or Modern Ghosts (Le Horla) [1887]
  114. The Horrible
  115. How He Got the Legion of Honor
  116. A Humble Drama
  117. The Ill-Omened Groom
  118. The Impolite Sex
  119. Indiscretion
  120. In His Sweetheart’s Livery
  121. In the sunlight (Au soleil) [1884]
  122. In Vagabondia (La Vie errante) [1890]
  123. Inheritance (L’Héritage) [1884]
  124. The Inn
  125. In the Spring
  126. In the Wood
  127. The Jennet
  128. Jeroboam
  129. Joseph
  130. Julie Romain
  131. Julot’s Opinion
  132. Kind Girls
  133. The Kiss
  134. La Morillonne
  135. The Lancer’s Wife
  136. Lasting Love
  137. The Last Step
  138. Legend of Mont St. Michel (La Légende du Mont-Saint-Michel) [1882]
  139. The Legion of Honor
  140. Letter Found on a Drowned Man
  141. Letter from a Madman (Lettre d'un fou) [1885]
  142. Lieutenant Lare’s Marriage
  143. Lilie Lala
  144. The Little Cask
  145. Little Louise Roqué
  146. A Lively Friend
  147. The Log
  148. Love
  149. The Love of Long Ago
  150. Madame Baptiste
  151. Madame Hermet
  152. Madame Husson’s “Rosier” (Le Rosier de Madame Husson) [1888]
  153. Madame Parisse
  154. Madame Tellier’s Establishment (La Maison Tellier) [1881]
  155. Mademoiselle Cocotte
  156. Mademoiselle Fifi [1882]
  157. Mademoiselle
  158. Mademoiselle Pearl
  159. Mad
  160. The Mad Woman (La Folle) [1882]
  161. Madness (Un fou ?) [1884]
  162. The Magic Couch
  163. Magnetism
  164. (La Main gauche) [1889]
  165. Mamma Stirling
  166. The Man with the Blue Eyes
  167. The Man with the Dogs
  168. Margot’s Tapers
  169. The Marquis De Fumerol
  170. The Marquis
  171. Marroca
  172. Martine
  173. The Mask (Le Masque)
  174. A Meeting
  175. A Mesalliance
  176. Minuet
  177. Miss Harriet [1884]
  178. Misti
  179. The Model (Femme d'artiste)
  180. Moiron
  181. Monsieur Parent [1885]
  182. Moonlight
  183. The Moribund
  184. Mother and Daughter
  185. Mother and Son
  186. Mother and Son!!!
  187. A Mother of Monsters
  188. Mother Sauvage
  189. The Mountain Pool
  190. The Mountebanks
  191. The Mustache
  192. My Landlady
  193. My Twenty-Five Days
  194. My Uncle Jules
  195. My Uncle Sosthenes
  196. My Wife
  197. The New Sensation
  198. A New Year’s Gift
  199. A Night in Whitechapel
  200. No Quarter
  201. A Normandy Joke
  202. The Odalisque of Senichou
  203. Old Amable
  204. Old Judas
  205. The Old Maid
  206. Old Mongilet
  207. One Evening
  208. On the River (Sur l’eau) [1888]
  209. The Orderly
  210. The Orphan
  211. Our Letters
  212. A Parricide
  213. The Parrot
  214. A Passion
  215. The Patron
  216. Paul’s Mistress
  217. The Peddler (Le Colporteur) [1900]
  218. The Penguins’ Rock
  219. A Philosopher
  220. The Piece of String (La Ficelle) [1883]
  221. Pierre et Jean
  222. Pierrot
  223. The Port (Le Port) [1889]
  224. A Portrait
  225. The Prisoners
  226. Profitable Business
  227. Queen Hortense
  228. A Queer Night in Paris
  229. The Question of Latin
  230. The Rabbit
  231. The Read One and the Other
  232. A Recollection
  233. Regret
  234. The Relic
  235. The Relics
  236. Relics of the Past
  237. Rosalie Prudent
  238. Rose
  239. A Rupture
  240. Rust
  241. Saint Anthony
  242. A Sale
  243. Saved
  244. The Sequel to a Divorce
  245. The Signal
  246. Simon’s Papa
  247. A Sister’s Confession
  248. The Snipe (Contes de la bécasse) [1883]
  249. The Son
  250. The Spasm
  251. Stable Perfume
  252. The Story of a Farm-Girl (Histoire d’une fille de ferme) [1889]
  253. A Stroll
  254. The Substitute
  255. Suicides
  256. Sundays of a Bourgeois (Les Dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris) [1900]
  257. Sympathy
  258. The Test
  259. That Costly Ride
  260. That Pig of a Morin (Ce cochon de Morin) [1882]
  261. Theodule Sabot’s Confession
  262. “The Terror”
  263. The Thief
  264. Timbuctoo
  265. Toine
  266. Tombstones
  267. A Tress of Hair (La Chevelure)
  268. The Trip of Le Horla
  269. True Story (Histoire vraie)
  270. The Twenty-Five Francs of the Mother-Superior
  271. Two Friends
  272. Two Little Soldiers
  273. Ugly
  274. The Umbrella
  275. An Uncomfortable Bed
  276. Under the Yoke
  277. Une Vie
  278. An Unfortunate Likeness
  279. The Unknown
  280. The Upstart
  281. A Useful House
  282. Useless Beauty (L’Inutile Beauté) [1890]
  283. A Vagabond
  284. A Vendetta (Une Vendetta) [1883]
  285. The Venus of Braniza
  286. The Viaticum
  287. Violated
  288. Virtue in the Ballet
  289. Waiter, a “Bock”
  290. Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure
  291. The Wardrobe
  292. A Warning Note
  293. Was It a Dream?
  294. A Wedding Gift
  295. What Was Really the Matter with Andrew
  296. The White Lady
  297. Who Knows?
  298. Why?
  299. A Widow
  300. Wife and Mistress
  301. A Wife’s Confession
  302. The Will
  303. The Wolf
  304. Woman’s Wiles
  305. The Wooden Shoes
  306. Words of Love
  307. The Wreck
  308. The Wrong House
  309. Yvette [1884]
  310. Yvette Samoris

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