Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
No one wrote the short story with a colder, clearer eye than Maupassant, and this large collection gathers the tales that made him a master of the form. Peasants and clerks, prostitutes and aristocrats, soldiers and cuckolds move through stories that turn on a single sharp irony or a sudden cruelty of fate. Some, like Boule de Suif and The Necklace, are among the most famous stories ever written; others are grim, funny, or quietly devastating studies of provincial France and the Franco-Prussian War. Across hundreds of pages his unsentimental craft never falters. This volume collects his short fiction in English translation. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guy De Maupassant: A Study by Pol. Neveux | 13:10 | |
| 2 | Boule de Suif, Part 1 | 33:29 | |
| 3 | Boule de Suif, Part 2 | 37:43 | |
| 4 | Two Friends | 11:31 | |
| 5 | The Lancer's Wife | 23:44 | |
| 6 | The Prisoners | 17:47 | |
| 7 | Two Little Soldiers | 10:11 | |
| 8 | Father Milon | 10:31 | |
| 9 | A Coup d'Etat | 16:54 | |
| 10 | Lieutenant Lare's Marriage | 7:29 | |
| 11 | The Horrible | 10:23 | |
| 12 | Madame Parisse | 11:43 | |
| 13 | Mademoiselle Fifi | 21:18 | |
| 14 | A Duel | 8:42 | |
| 15 | The Colonel's Ideas | 9:09 | |
| 16 | Mother Sauvage | 11:53 | |
| 17 | Epiphany | 20:22 | |
| 18 | The Mustache | 6:32 | |
| 19 | Madame Baptiste | 10:29 | |
| 20 | The Question of Latin | 14:46 | |
| 21 | A Meeting | 13:56 | |
| 22 | The Blind Man | 6:40 | |
| 23 | Indiscretion | 7:25 | |
| 24 | A Family Affair, Part 1 | 21:43 | |
| 25 | A Family Affair, Part 2 | 26:47 | |
| 26 | Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse | 7:17 | |
| 27 | Miss Harriet | 35:37 | |
| 28 | Little Louise Roque, Part 1 | 17:57 | |
| 29 | Little Louise Roque, Part 2 | 39:35 | |
| 30 | The Donkey | 13:27 | |
| 31 | Moiron | 10:44 | |
| 32 | The Dispenser of Holy Water | 7:41 | |
| 33 | A Parricide | 10:07 | |
| 34 | Bertha | 16:14 | |
| 35 | The Patron | 8:49 | |
| 36 | The Door | 9:12 | |
| 37 | A Sale | 9:49 | |
| 38 | The Impolite Sex | 10:07 | |
| 39 | A Wedding Gift | 9:50 | |
| 40 | The Relic | 9:13 | |
| 41 | The Moribund | 11:50 | |
| 42 | The Gamekeeper | 12:07 | |
| 43 | The Story of a Farm Girl | 31:28 | |
| 44 | The Wreck | 19:38 | |
| 45 | Theodule Sabot's Confession | 13:20 | |
| 46 | The Wrong House | 11:08 | |
| 47 | The Diamond Necklace | 13:49 | |
| 48 | The Marquis de Fumerol | 12:21 | |
| 49 | The Trip of Le Horla | 19:42 | |
| 50 | Farewell! | 7:41 | |
| 51 | The Wolf | 9:18 | |
| 52 | The Inn | 23:27 | |
| 53 | Monsieur Parent | 46:48 | |
| 54 | Queen Hortense | 12:01 | |
| 55 | Timbuctoo | 12:22 | |
| 56 | Tombstones | 13:07 | |
| 57 | Mademoiselle Pearl | 28:08 | |
| 58 | The Thief | 8:48 | |
| 59 | Claire de Lune | 8:44 | |
| 60 | Waiter, a "Bock" | 11:12 | |
| 61 | After | 10:23 | |
| 62 | Forgiveness | 10:38 | |
| 63 | In the Spring | 11:40 | |
| 64 | A Queer Night in Paris | 15:45 | |
| 65 | That Costly Ride | 12:15 | |
| 66 | Useless Beauty | 32:24 | |
| 67 | The Father | 13:56 | |
| 68 | My Uncle Sosthenes | 11:46 | |
| 69 | The Baroness | 7:12 | |
| 70 | Mother and Son | 9:40 | |
| 71 | The Hand | 10:22 | |
| 72 | A Tress of Hair | 11:39 | |
| 73 | On the River | 10:45 | |
| 74 | The Cripple | 8:20 | |
| 75 | A Stroll | 9:26 | |
| 76 | Alexandre | 7:46 | |
| 77 | The Log | 9:08 | |
| 78 | Julie Romain | 13:04 | |
| 79 | The Rondoli Sisters | 40:45 | |
| 80 | The False Gems | 11:17 | |
| 81 | Fascination | 9:31 | |
| 82 | Yvette Samoris | 7:32 | |
| 83 | A Vendetta | 7:53 | |
| 84 | My Twenty-Five Days | 13:55 | |
| 85 | "The Terror" | 11:39 | |
| 86 | Legend of Mont St. Michel | 7:25 | |
| 87 | A New Year's Gift | 9:51 | |
| 88 | Friend Patience | 8:24 | |
| 89 | Abandoned | 13:07 | |
| 90 | The Maison Tellier | 41:40 | |
| 91 | Denis | 10:51 | |
| 92 | My Wife | 10:54 | |
| 93 | The Unknown | 8:49 | |
| 94 | The Apparition | 11:31 | |
| 95 | Clochette | 8:21 | |
| 96 | The Kiss | 6:55 | |
| 97 | The Legion of Honor | 9:28 | |
| 98 | The Test | 14:18 | |
| 99 | Found on a Drowned Man | 10:02 | |
| 100 | The Orphan | 11:06 | |
| 101 | The Beggar | 8:39 | |
| 102 | The Rabbit | 12:29 | |
| 103 | His Avenger | 7:52 | |
| 104 | My Uncle Jules | 12:08 | |
| 105 | The Model | 10:39 | |
| 106 | A Vagabond | 20:01 | |
| 107 | The Fishing Hole | 11:45 | |
| 108 | The Spasm | 10:04 | |
| 109 | In the Wood | 8:20 | |
| 110 | Martine | 10:24 | |
| 111 | All Over | 10:55 | |
| 112 | The Parrot | 10:26 | |
| 113 | The Piece of String | 11:22 | |
| 114 | Toine | 14:19 | |
| 115 | Madame Husson's "Rosier" | 28:51 | |
| 116 | The Adopted Son | 9:24 | |
| 117 | Coward | 13:11 | |
| 118 | Old Mongilet | 9:40 | |
| 119 | Moonlight | 7:32 | |
| 120 | The First Snowfall | 14:23 | |
| 121 | Sundays of a Bourgeois, Part 1 | 29:58 | |
| 122 | Sundays of a Bourgeois, Part 2 | 28:15 | |
| 123 | A Recollection | 11:13 | |
| 124 | Our Letters | 9:04 | |
| 125 | The Love of Long Ago | 7:38 | |
| 126 | Friend Joseph | 9:15 | |
| 127 | The Effeminates | 7:07 | |
| 128 | Old Amable | 37:09 | |
| 129 | The Christening | 7:45 | |
| 130 | The Farmer's Wife | 12:06 | |
| 131 | The Devil | 12:38 | |
| 132 | The Snipe | 3:41 | |
| 133 | The Will | 8:13 | |
| 134 | Walter Schnaff's Adventure | 14:07 | |
| 135 | At Sea | 8:49 | |
| 136 | Minuet | 8:02 | |
| 137 | The Son | 16:06 | |
| 138 | That Pig of a Morin | 19:19 | |
| 139 | Saint Anthony | 14:12 | |
| 140 | Lasting Love | 9:40 | |
| 141 | Pierrot | 9:11 | |
| 142 | A Normandy Joke | 7:28 | |
| 143 | Father Matthew | 10:31 | |
| 144 | The Umbrella | 14:37 | |
| 145 | Belhomme's Beast | 12:06 | |
| 146 | Discovery | 6:35 | |
| 147 | The Accursed Bread | 8:13 | |
| 148 | The Dowry | 9:24 | |
| 149 | The Diary of a Madman | 9:14 | |
| 150 | The Mask | 14:20 | |
| 151 | The Penguins' Rock | 7:26 | |
| 152 | A Family | 9:27 | |
| 153 | Suicides | 8:57 | |
| 154 | An Artifice | 8:19 | |
| 155 | Dreams | 6:47 | |
| 156 | Simon's Papa | 15:56 | |
| 157 | The Child | 9:09 | |
| 158 | A Country Excursion | 18:49 | |
| 159 | Rose | 9:39 | |
| 160 | Rosalie Prudent | 7:01 | |
| 161 | Regret | 10:18 | |
| 162 | A Sister's Confession | 8:32 | |
| 163 | Coco | 7:09 | |
| 164 | Dead Woman's Secret | 7:09 | |
| 165 | A Humble Drama | 9:40 | |
| 166 | Mademoiselle Cocotte | 6:53 | |
| 167 | The Corsican Bandit | 6:22 | |
| 168 | The Grave | 6:35 | |
| 169 | Old Judas | 6:02 | |
| 170 | The Little Cask | 9:45 | |
| 171 | Boitelle | 15:11 | |
| 172 | A Widow | 8:43 | |
| 173 | The Englishman of Etretat | 5:55 | |
| 174 | Magnetism | 7:52 | |
| 175 | A Father's Confession | 12:04 | |
| 176 | Mother of Monsters | 7:59 | |
| 177 | An Uncomfortable Bed | 4:55 | |
| 178 | A Portrait | 7:09 | |
| 179 | The Drunkard | 8:10 | |
| 180 | The Wardrobe | 10:12 | |
| 181 | The Mountain Pool | 8:41 | |
| 182 | A Cremation | 11:20 | |
| 183 | Misti | 9:10 | |
| 184 | Madame Hermet | 12:55 | |
| 185 | The Magic Couch | 16:34 |
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