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Guy de Maupassant

Born

in Dieppe, France

August 05, 1850

Died

July 06, 1893

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_Maupassant

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

Influences

Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, Émile Zola, Arthur ...more

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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. ...more

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Guy de Maupassant’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 231,093 ratings · 18,712 reviews · 7,919 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bel-Ami 3.87 avg rating — 51,878 ratings — published 1885 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror by Guy de Maupassant, M. Walter Dunne (Translator), Dora Knowlton Ranous (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 24,699 ratings — published 1886 — 612 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times by Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith (Translation) 3.94 avg rating — 19,270 ratings — published 1884 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Une vie 3.87 avg rating — 16,740 ratings — published 1883 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boule de Suif (21 contes) 3.72 avg rating — 12,863 ratings — published 1880 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Necklace 3.84 avg rating — 10,261 ratings — published 1884 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pierre et Jean 3.61 avg rating — 9,652 ratings — published 1888 — 236 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bola de sebo by Guy de Maupassant, Natlaie Montoto (Translation) 3.73 avg rating — 4,094 ratings — published 1880 — 382 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Roger Colet (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 3,441 ratings — published 1971	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant, Siân Miles (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 2,653 ratings — published 1881 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Guy de Maupassant

Novelas e Contos Completos de Maupassant (10 books)
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Franco de Sousa (Tradução)

3.28 avg rating — 74 ratings

Quotes by Guy de Maupassant (?)

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

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“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

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Polls

Old School Classics November 2026 Poll

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1882, 167 pages

16 votes, 29.6%

The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1850, 143 pages

13 votes, 24.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, 1885, 416 pages

7 votes, 13.0%

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 1817, 501 pages

6 votes, 11.1%

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, 1907, 304 pages

5 votes, 9.3%

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882, 242 pages

4 votes, 7.4%

The Reef by Edith Wharton, 1912, 353 pages

3 votes, 5.6%

54 total votes

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