Author of Audiobooks - Guy de Maupassant
Pierre & Jean - Guy de Maupassant
Pierre & Jean - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This short novelβs titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the younger brother. Pierre, the protagonist, is puzzled, jealous, and increasingly bitter. A bequest, a secret, a...
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off." But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects, she finds herself the center of a...
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White....
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres...
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Romance
Having spent her girlhood at a convent getting a good education, Jeanne has just returned home and is a happy young woman full of hope and excitement, and eager to experience life and love! But is she ready? The facts of life were not a part of the...
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel - Guy de Maupassant
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction
βHe had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.β Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could,...
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-of-Fat" (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre...
The Horla - Guy de Maupassant
The Horla - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
"The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. This version, published in 1887, is an expanded version of that previously published in the Paris literary periodical, Le Gil Blas,...
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franco-Prussian War and the disillusionment of life and relationships. This collection of his works, containing...