Guy de Maupassant Books In Order

A Life

every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth’
What is A Life? How shall a storyteller conceive A Life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant’s six novels, A Life Une Vie 1883 in which he sought to parody and expose the folly of romantic illusion. An unflinching presentation of a woman’s life of failure and disappointments, where fulfillment and happiness might have been expected, A Life recounts Jeanne de Lamare’s gradual lapse into a state of disillusion.
With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, IA Life reflects the influence of Flaubert in its attention to form and its coherent structure. It also expresses Maupassant’s characteristic naturalistic vision in which the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, the undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration, all play a role. But above all Maupassant brings to his first novel the short story writer’s genius for a focused tension between stasis and change, and A Life is one of his most compelling portraits of dispossession and powerlessness.

A Woman’s Life

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Bel-Ami

The story chronicles Georges Duroy’s corrupt rise to power from a poor ex NCO non commissioned officer to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses. The novel is set in Paris in the upper middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Fran aise and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent three years of military service in Algeria. After six months working as clerk in Paris, an encounter with his former comrade, Forestier, enables him to start a career as a journalist. From a reporter of minor events and soft news, he gradually climbs his way up to chief editor. Duroy initially owes his success to Forestier’s wife who helps him write his first articles and, when he later starts writing lead articles, she adds an edge and poignancy to them. At the same time, she uses her connections among leading politicians to provide him with behind the scenes information which allows him to become actively involved in politics. Duroy is also introduced to many politicians in Mme Forestier’s drawing room. Duroy becomes the lover of Forestiers’ friend Mme de Marelle, another influential woman. Duroy later tries to seduce Madeleine Forestier to get even with her husband, but she repulses Duroy’s sexual advances and offers that they become true friends without ulterior motives instead.

Pierre et Jean

Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant 1850 1893 was a popular 19th century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a prot g of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless d nouement. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, Boule de Suif, which Flaubert characterized it as ‘a masterpiece that will endure. ‘ This was Maupassant’s first piece of short fiction and was followed by short stories such as Deux Amis 1882 and Mademoiselle Fifi 1882. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught, emerge changed many are set during the Franco Prussian War of the 1870s. In his novels, he concentrated all his observations scattered in his short stories. His second novel was Bel Ami; or, The History of a Scoundrel, which came out in 1885. His other works include: La Maison Tellier 1881, Une Vie 1883, Miss Harriet 1884, Mont Oriol 1887, Pierre et Jean 1888, Fort Comme la Mort 1889 and Notre Coeur 1890.

Alien Hearts

Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Andr Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothing in particular, he will devote himself to being in love; Madame de Burne will be his everything. Soon lover and beloved are equally lost within a hall of mirrors of their common devising. Richard Howard’s new English translation of this complex and brooding novel the first in more than a hundred years reveals the final, unexpected flowering of a great French realist s art.

Strong as Death

Guy de Maupassant was a popular French writer in the 19th century. He was one of the first writers to write short stories. Many of his stories were set during the Franco Prussian war. His stories show the futility of war and war’s effects on the innocent. Strong as Death is the love story of a lower class painter who is in love with a countess. As she grows older she fears the artist will fall in love with her beautiful daughter. The fear of growing old is timeless. An excerpt reads, ‘The attraction that impelled him toward this girl a little resembled those obscure yet innocent desires that go to make up part of all the ceaseless and unappeasable vibrations of human nerves. His eye of the artist, as well as that of the man, was captivated by her freshness, by that springing of beautiful clear life, by that essence of youth that glowed in her; and his heart, full of memories of his long intimacy with the Countess, finding in the extraordinary resemblance of Annette to her mother a reawakening of old feelings, of emotions sleeping since the beginning of his love, had been startled perhaps by the sensation of an awakening. An awakening? Yes. Was it that?’

Necklace / Pearls

A necklace of pearls and a necklace of diamonds are at the center of these two contrasting stories. The Necklace is a story of vanity, of two lives blighted by the loss of a diamond necklace, celebrated for its twist ending. From the fairytale like collection Winter’s Tales, The Pearls is a story of love and fear.

The Horla

1887. Translated by Albert M.C. McMaster, A.E. Henderson, Mme. Quesada and Others. French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. The title story of this volume contains Maupassant’s most upsetting horror tale concerning madness and suicide. Contents: The Horla; Miss Harriet; Little Louise Roque; The Donkey; Moiron; The Dispenser of Holy Water; The Parricide; Bertha; The Patron; The Door; A Sale; The Impolite Sex; A Wedding Gift; The Moribund; The Gamekeeper; The Story of a Farm Girl; and The Marquis de Fumerol. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Monsieur Parent

1911. Translated by Albert M.C. McMaster, A.E. Henderson, and Mme. Quesada and others. French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. Contents: Monsieur Parent; Queen Hortense; Timbuctoo; Tombstones; Mademoiselle Pearl; The Thief; Clair de Lune; Waiter a Bock; After; Forgiveness; Woman’s Wiles; A Queer Night in Paris; That Costly Ride; Useless Beauty; The Father; My Uncle Sosthenes; The Baroness; Mother and Son; The Hand; A Tress of Hair; The Cripple; and Alexandre. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Odd Number

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The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

1903. Part One contains Volumes I IV of X. French author of the naturalistic school, Maupassant is generally considered to be the greatest French short story writer of his day. The Complete Short Stories contains the 300 short stories Maupassant wrote during the 1880s, including his horror fiction, which consists of some 39 stories, only a tenth of his total. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBNs: 1417936150.

Selected Short Stories

Ranging in subject from murder, adultery and war to the simple pleasures of eating and drinking, Guy de Maupassant’s short stories are his greatest achievements. Maupassant’s instinctive insight into the vices and passions of ‘respectable’ men and women is tempered by a sensual appreciation of the good things in life and a robust humor.

The Best Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant 1850 – 1893 was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and arguably the world’s best short story writer.

Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their clever plots, clear style and surprise endings. Many of the stories describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. But most of his stories deal with love, often focusing on themes of adultery and prostitution.

No one was better than Maupassant at telling a really good story, and here is a collection of Guy de Maupassant’s greatest tales all in one book.

A Day in the Country

This selection of twenty seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author’s own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James’ claim that in the annals of story telling, Maupassant stands ‘like a lion in the path’.

The Necklace and Other Short Stories

Nine memorable classics, characterized by ironic twists of plot, include ‘Ball of Fat,’ regarded by many as technically one of the finest short stories ever written, ‘The Necklace,’ ‘A Piece of String,’ ‘Mme. Tellier’s Establishment,’ ‘Mademoiselle Fifi,’ ‘Miss Harriet,’ ‘A Way to Wealth,’ ‘My Uncle Jules’ and ‘The Horla.’

The Best Short Stories

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies and vanities at different levels of society. Prostitution is frankly described, while the harshness of war is deftly exposed. His tales have been televised and have influenced films, operas and rock music. Unillusioned but humane, Maupassant remains our contemporary.

Mademoiselle Fifi and Others

Guy de Maupassant was a literary acolyte of Gustave Flaubert. Through Flaubert, de Maupassant befriended the Russian novelist Tourgueneff and Emilie Zola, as well as many of the protagonists of the realistic school. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, ‘Boule de Suif,’ which met with an instant and tremendous success. Flaubert characterized it as ‘a masterpiece that will remain.’ With good cause de Maupassant’s tales, whether they’re tales of war and brutality like ‘Mademoiselle Fifi’ and ‘Boule de Suif’ or tales of the human heart like ‘Yvette,’ speak to a window in the human soul that few can see, and fewer still can speak to. Jacketless library hardcover.

The Necklace and Other Tales

Ranging from poignant scrutiny of social pretension, to wicked tales of lust and love, to harrowing stories of terror and madness, the genius of Guy de Maupassant, France’s greatest short story writer, is on full display in this enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. The stories Neugroschel has gathered vividly reveal Maupassant s remarkable range, his keen eye, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages. Adam Gopnik s Introduction incisively explores the essence of Maupassant s unique style and his tremendous, if unjustly unacknowledged, influence on everything from the American short story to contemporary cinema, bearing eloquent testimony to Maupassant s continuing and vital appeal.

Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories

Zola had contributed the manuscript of the ‘Attaque du Moulin,’ and it was at Maupassant’s house that the five young men gave in their contributions. Each one read his story, Maupassant being the last. When he had finished Boule de Suif, with a spontaneous impulse, with an emotion they never forgot, filled with enthusiasm at this revelation, they all rose and, without superfluous words, acclaimed him as a master. He undertook to write the article for the Gaulois and, in cooperation with his friends, he worded it in the terms with which we are familiar, amplifying and embellishing it, yielding to an inborn taste for mystification which his youth rendered excusable. The essential point, he said, is to ‘unmoor’ criticism. It was unmoored. The following day Wolff wrote a polemical dissertation in the Figaro and carried away his colleagues. The volume was a brilliant success, thanks to Boule de Suif. Despite the novelty, the honesty of effort, on the part of all, no mention was made of the other stories. Relegated to the second rank, they passed without notice. From his first battle, Maupassant was master of the field in literature.

Mademoiselle Fifi

Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant 1850 1893 was a popular 19th century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. As a prot g of Flaubert, his short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless d nouement. In 1880 he published his first masterpiece, Boule de Suif, which Flaubert characterized it as ‘a masterpiece that will endure. ‘ This was Maupassant’s first piece of short fiction and was followed by short stories such as Deux Amis 1882 and Mademoiselle Fifi 1882. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught, emerge changed many are set during the Franco Prussian War of the 1870s. In his novels, he concentrated all his observations scattered in his short stories. His second novel was Bel Ami; or, The History of a Scoundrel, which came out in 1885. His other works include: La Maison Tellier 1881, Une Vie 1883, Miss Harriet 1884, Mont Oriol 1887, Pierre et Jean 1888, Fort Comme la Mort 1889 and Notre Coeur 1890.

A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales

Why, it is very simple. When I visit people whom I like, such as Madame de Sallus and yourself, I do not expect to meet the Paris that flutters from house to house in the evening, gossiping and scandalizing. I have had my experience of gossip and tittle tattle. It needs only one of these talkative dames or men to take away all the pleasure there is for me in visiting the lady on whom I happen to have called. Sometimes when I am anchored perforce upon my seat, I feel lost; I do not know how to get away. I have to take part in the whirlpool of foolish chatter.

Original Maupassant Short Stories

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A Parisian Affair

Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity of close relationships: between lovers, as in the poignant fantasy A Parisian Affair or the touchingly ironical The Jewels ; between siblings, as in At Sea ; and between former partners, as in Encounter. They reveal two sides of human nature: its grace and generosity and also, as in Boule de Suif, its greed and hypocrisy. Piquant and varied, Maupassant’s stories lay humanity bare with deft wit and devastating honesty.

Countess Satan and Other Tales

Maupassant has been called a literary nihilist but and this is the second trait of his singular genius in him nihilism finds itself coexistent with an animal energy so fresh and so intense that for a long time it deceives the closest observer. In an eloquent discourse, pronounced over his premature grave, Emile Zola well defined this illusion: ‘We congratulated him,’ said he, ‘upon that health which seemed unbreakable, and justly credited him with the soundest constitution of our band, as well as with the clearest mind and the sanest reason. It was then that this frightful thunderbolt destroyed him.’ It is not exact to say that the lofty genius of de Maupassant was that of an absolutely sane man. We comprehend it today, and, on re reading him, we find traces everywhere of his final malady. But it is exact to say that this wounded genius was, by a singular circumstance, the genius of a robust man. A physiologist would without doubt explain this anomaly by the coexistence of a nervous lesion, light at first, with a muscular, athletic temperament. Whatever the cause, the effect is undeniable. The skilled and dainty pessimism of de Maupassant was accompanied by a vigor and physique very unusual. His sensations are in turn those of a hunter and of a sailor, who have, as the old French saying expressively puts it, ‘swift foot, eagle eye,’ and who are attuned to all the whisperings of nature.

The Old Maid and Other Stories

A selection of 35 of Guy de Maupassant’s finest short stories, including ‘The Old Maid,’ ‘The Awakening,’ ‘In the Spring,’ ‘Rust,’ ‘The Man with the Blue Eyes,’ ‘The Carnival of Love,’ and many more!

The Viaticum and Other Stories

A selection of fifty of Guy de Maupassant ‘s finest short stories, including ‘Was It a Dream? ‘ ‘Madame Baptiste, ‘ ‘The Lancer ‘s Wife, ‘ ‘The Relics, ‘ ‘The Carter ‘s Wench, ‘ and many more!

The String

A simple peasant has his life destroyed by the lie of an enemy who accuses him of a theft.

The Necklace

After devoting their energies and income for ten years to replacing a borrowed diamond necklace which they have lost, a woman and her husband learn the irony of their efforts.