Guy de Maupassant

The 39 books by Guy de Maupassant include his Complete Short Stories (180 stories).

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are organized for easy access. Individual books are in plain text format. You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor. In addition, many of the same stories are also provided in a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links.

Complete Table of Contents:

Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

• Complete Short Stories -- 13 volumes, 180 stories, translated to English by Albert McNaster, A.E. Henderson, Madame Quesada et al.
• As a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links
• As individual stories in plain text format
• Volume 1
• Guy de Maupassant -- a Study by Pol. Neveux
• Boule de Suif
• Two Friends
• The Lancer's Wife
• The Prisoners
• Two Little Soldiers
• Father Milon
• A Coup d'Etat
• Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
• The Horrible
• Madame Parisse
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• A Duel
• Volume 2
• The Colonel's Ideas
• Mother Sauvage
• Epiphany
• The Mustache
• Madame Baptiste
• The Question of Latin
• A Meeting
• The Blind Man
• Indiscretion
• A Family Affair
• Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
• Volume 3
• 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 Relic
• Volume 4
• The Moribund
• The Gamekeeper
• The Story of a Farm Girl
• The Wreck
• Theodule Sabot's Confession
• The Wrong House
• The Diamond Necklace
• The Marquis de Fumerol
• The Trip of the Horla
• Farewell
• The Wolf
• The Inn
• Volume 5
• Monsieur Parent
• Queen Hortense
• Timbuctoo
• Tombstones
• Mademoiselle Pearl
• The Thief
• Claire de Lune
• Waiter, a "Bock"
• After
• Forgiveness
• In the Spring
• A Queer Night in Paris
• Volume 6
• That Costly Ride
• Useless Beauty
• The Father
• My Uncle Sosthenes
• The Baroness
• Mother and Son
• The Hand
• A Tress of Hair
• On the River
• The Cripple
• A Stroll
• Alexandre
• The Log
• Julie Romain
• The Rondoli Sisters
• Volume 7
• The False Gems
• Fascination
• Yvette Samoris
• A Vendetta
• My Twenty-Five Days
• "The Terror"
• Legend of Mont St. Michel
• A New Year's Gift
• Friend Patience
• Abandoned
• The Maison Tellier
• Denis
• My Wife
• The Unknown
• The Apparition
• Volume 8
• Clochette
• The Kiss
• The Legion of Honor
• The Test
• Found on a Drowned Man
• The Orphan
• The Beggar
• The Rabbit
• His Avenger
• My Uncle Jules
• The Model
• A Vagabond
• The Fishing Hole
• The Spasm
• In the Wood
• Martine
• All Over
• The Parrot
• A Piece of String
• Volume 9
• Toine
• Madame Husson's Rosier
• The Adopted Son
• A Coward
• Old Mongilet
• Moonlight
• The First Snowfall
• Sundays of a Bourgeois
• A Recollection
• Our Letters
• The Love of Long Ago
• Friend Joseph
• The Effeminates
• Old Amable
• Volume 10
• The Christening
• The Farmer's Wife
• The Devil
• The Snipe
• The Will
• Walter Schnaff's Adventure
• At Sea
• Minuet
• The Son
• That Pig of a Morin
• Saint Anthony
• Lasting Love
• Pierrot
• A Normandy Joke
• Father Matthew
• Volume 11
• The Umbrella
• Belhomme's Beast
• Discovery
• The Accursed Bread
• The Dowry
• The Diary of a Mad Man
• The Mask
• The Penguins' Rock
• A Family
• Suicides
• An Artifice
• Dreams
• Simon's Papa
• Volume 12
• The Child
• A Country Excursion
• Rose
• Rosalie Prudent
• Regret
• A Sister's Confession
• Coco
• A Dead Woman's Secret
• A Humble Drama
• Mademoiselle Cocotte
• The Corsican Bandit
• The Grave
• Volume 13
• Old Judas
• The Little Cask
• Boitelle
• A Widow
• The Englishmen of Etretat
• Magnetism
• A Father's Confession
• A Mother of Monsters
• An Uncomfortable Bed
• A Portrait
• The Drunkard
• The Wardrobe
• The Mountain Pool
• A Cremation
• Misti
• Madame Hermet
• The Magic Couch
• Bel Ami (novel), in English
• Boule de Suif and other stories, in French
• Claire de Lune
• A Comedy of Marriage, The Lancer's Wife, and Other Tales
• Contes du Jour et de la Nuit
• Contes de la Becasse, 1894
• Fort Come La Mort
• Le Horla, in French
• Le Horla and Other Stories, in French
• L'inutile Beaute
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• La Main Gauche
• La Maison Tellier, in French
• Monsieur Parent, in French
• La Petite Roque
• Pierre and Jean (Pierre et Jean)
• translated to English by Clara Bell
• in French
• A Selection from the Writings of Maupassant, volume 1
• Strong as Death, in English
• Une Vie, novel
• La Vie Errante
• The Works of Guy de Maupassant
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 8
• Yvette, in English