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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 · 217,347 ratings · 16,952 reviews · 7,465 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bel-Ami 3.86 avg rating — 48,739 ratings — published 1885 — 402 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 — 23,487 ratings — published 1886 — 628 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 — 18,919 ratings — published 1884 — 67 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 — 15,720 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) 3.75 avg rating — 9,938 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
	The Necklace 3.84 avg rating — 9,062 ratings — published 1884 — 98 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 — 9,157 ratings — published 1888 — 624 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 — 3,765 ratings — published 1880 — 43 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 — 3,364 ratings — published 1971 — 28 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) 3.52 avg rating — 2,375 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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Guy de Maupassant,

Franco de Sousa (Tradução)

3.34 avg rating — 67 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

3383 likes

“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

2848 likes

“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

September 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 1889, 184 pages

48 votes, 15.3%

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1600, 289 pages

43 votes, 13.7%

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1894, 277 pages

33 votes, 10.5%

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 1889, 416 pages

26 votes, 8.3%

Utopia by Thomas More 1516, 135 pages

25 votes, 8.0%

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 1839, 817 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 1883, 327 pages

19 votes, 6.1%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 176 pages

18 votes, 5.7%

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages

17 votes, 5.4%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages

16 votes, 5.1%

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages

15 votes, 4.8%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages

13 votes, 4.1%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant 1885, 416 pages

10 votes, 3.2%

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 1752, 464 pages

9 votes, 2.9%

East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861, 694 pages

3 votes, 1.0%

314 total votes

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