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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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Average rating: 3.83 · 169,358 ratings · 11,465 reviews · 5,262 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bel-Ami 3.85 avg rating — 38,873 ratings — published 1885 — 1574 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 — 17,683 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 3.85 avg rating — 12,550 ratings — published 1883 — 730 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
	Le Horla et autres nouvelles fantastiques 3.92 avg rating — 10,480 ratings — published 1887 — 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
	Boule de Suif (21 contes) 3.78 avg rating — 7,789 ratings — published 1880 — 189 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 — 7,429 ratings — published 1886 — 420 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 — 7,596 ratings — published 1888 — 781 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 — 6,001 ratings — published 1884 — 95 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 — 3,118 ratings — published 1971 — 63 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 — 2,494 ratings — published 1880 — 413 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

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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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April 2022 - State of the Nation

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (1970) 231 pages

8 votes, 26.7%

Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871) 904 pages

7 votes, 23.3%

The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt (1978) 428 pages

6 votes, 20.0%

Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) 141 pages

5 votes, 16.7%

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (1959) 187 pages

2 votes, 6.7%

Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (1885) 416 pages

2 votes, 6.7%

30 total votes

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