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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: 3.83 · 188,947 ratings · 13,540 reviews · 6,254 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bel-Ami 3.85 avg rating — 43,019 ratings — published 1885 — 1517 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) 3.95 avg rating — 18,245 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 — 13,838 ratings — published 1883 — 687 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) 3.91 avg rating — 11,533 ratings — published 1887 — 213 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 by Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 9,232 ratings — published 1886 — 401 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 — 8,670 ratings — published 1880 — 193 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 — 8,244 ratings — published 1888 — 622 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 — 7,168 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
	Selected Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Roger Colet (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 3,214 ratings — published 1971 — 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
	Bola de sebo by Guy de Maupassant, Natlaie Montoto (Translation) 3.72 avg rating — 3,064 ratings — published 1880 — 373 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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Polls

January 2022 Short Story/Novella Poll

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 108pages+-, 1872

39 votes, 22.3%

The Altar of the Dead by Henry James, 48 pages+-, 1895

38 votes, 21.7%

The Hand by Guy de Maupassant, 32 pages, 1875

33 votes, 18.9%

Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig, 128 pages, 1913

23 votes, 13.1%

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, 134 pages+-, 1614

22 votes, 12.6%

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, 103 pages, 1940

10 votes, 5.7%

The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue, 74 pages, 1949

10 votes, 5.7%

175 total votes

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