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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 · 203,823 ratings · 15,389 reviews · 6,973 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bel-Ami 3.86 avg rating — 46,019 ratings — published 1885 — 1522 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) 3.88 avg rating — 22,192 ratings — published 1886 — 625 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 — 18,592 ratings — published 1884 — 66 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 3.86 avg rating — 14,770 ratings — published 1883 — 716 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) 3.76 avg rating — 9,344 ratings — published 1880 — 49 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 — 8,175 ratings — published 1884 — 94 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 3.62 avg rating — 8,686 ratings — published 1888 — 3 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 — 3,287 ratings — published 1971 — 66 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) 3.72 avg rating — 3,435 ratings — published 1880 — 391 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
	Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant, Siân Miles (Translator) 3.54 avg rating — 2,094 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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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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January 2024 Old School Classics

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo, January 1, 378, 341 pp

55 votes, 23.4%

The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne, 1595, 416 pp

42 votes, 17.9%

The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola, 1870, 348 pp

40 votes, 17.0%

New Grub Street by George Gissing, 1891, 560 pp

33 votes, 14.0%

Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood, 1719, 286 pp

30 votes, 12.8%

Ball of Fat Short-story by Guy de Maupassant, 1880, 38 pp

24 votes, 10.2%

Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley, 1899, 378 pp

11 votes, 4.7%

235 total votes

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