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Short Fiction

de Guy de Maupassant

Chapitres (279)

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The Dead Hand 1:17:24
Doctor Heraclius Gloss 1:30:21
On the River 3:16:02
At the Church Door 3:30:20
Lieutenant Laré’s Marriage 3:40:03
Simon’s Father 3:49:32
A Family Affair 4:10:15
Boule de Suif 5:17:27
Les Dimanches d’Un Bourgeois 6:57:45
Suicides 9:03:14
A Grandmother’s Advice 9:15:48
Story of a Farm Girl 9:27:09
A Country Excursion 10:12:08
In the Spring 10:40:22
Paul’s Mistress 10:56:28
Madame Tellier’s Establishment 11:42:34
An Adventure in Paris 12:50:39
A Christmas Eve Festival 13:07:33
The Cake 13:19:14
The Log 13:29:28
Words of Love 13:41:41
Marroca 13:51:16
The Shepherd’s Leap 14:14:02
The Bed 14:23:19
Mademoiselle Fifi 14:32:18
Relics of the Past 15:03:11
The Blind Man 15:13:10
Magnetism 15:21:37
Guillemot Rock 15:31:42
A Son 15:42:01
Travelling 16:05:22
A Corsican Bandit 16:16:31
A Dead Woman’s Secret 16:24:17
Dreams 16:35:27
A True Story 16:43:52
The Burglar 16:55:57
A Woman’s Confession 17:05:38
Moonlight 17:16:29
A Cock Crowed 17:25:26
The Child 17:36:35
The Lock 17:49:31
A Normandy Joke 18:03:13
My Uncle Sosthène 18:14:27
A Reckless Passion 18:30:59
Mad? 18:48:46
Correspondence 18:58:24
A Widow 19:10:41
Rust 19:23:19
The Chair Mender 19:40:26
An Artifice 19:55:48
An Old Man 20:08:49
A Parricide 20:18:12
Pierrot 20:33:05
A Norman 20:45:02
The Pardon 20:59:23
The Relic 21:12:56
In the Moonlight 21:25:11
Fear 21:37:58
In the Country 21:53:40
A Million 22:07:05
The Will 22:18:54
The Wolf 22:30:14
The Kiss 22:43:15
That Pig, Morin 22:53:02
Madame Baptiste 23:21:30
My Wife 23:35:53
The Snipe 23:51:22
The Mad Woman 23:56:01
Artfulness 24:03:42
The Legend of Mont Saint-Michel 24:17:14
Minuet 24:27:18
Mother and Daughter 24:38:19
A Christmas Tale 24:47:57
Christmas Eve 25:01:21
The Substitute 25:11:30
On Horseback 25:20:01
The Wooden Shoes 25:33:22
Monsieur Jocaste 25:45:33
Beside a Dead Man 25:56:27
Two Friends 26:06:13
At Sea 26:21:36
The Necklace 26:33:18
The Awakening 26:52:10
Father Judas 27:05:04
Feminine Men 27:12:53
Mademoiselle Cocotte 27:22:33
The Jewels 27:34:57
Saint Anthony 27:51:43
An Apparition 28:10:42
Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure 28:27:38
Queen Hortense 28:46:35
On the Journey 29:03:04
A Surprise 29:16:23
Old Milon 29:30:42
The Accursed Bread 29:45:27
Friend Joseph 29:58:07
The Mother of Monsters 30:09:51
The Orphan 30:21:49
Old Boniface’s Crime 30:36:08
The Greenhouse 30:48:41
Denis 31:01:31
He? 31:16:27
The Window 31:34:39
The Donkey 31:47:54
André’s Disease 32:06:18
The Moustache 32:19:12
Timbuktu 32:29:08
My Uncle Jules 32:45:58
Hydrophobia? 33:02:29
Caresses 33:20:59
A Duel 33:30:49
The Little One 33:41:29
Madame Luneau’s Case 33:54:54
Friend Patience 34:05:38
The Funeral Pile 34:18:37
Miss Harriet 34:33:16
Martin’s Girl 35:24:41
The Orient 35:39:27
The Child 35:49:48
A Party 36:03:50
The Odyssey of a Prostitute 36:23:01
A Coup d’État 36:36:49
A Humble Drama 37:00:03
Théodule Sabot’s Confession 37:13:32
A Vendetta 37:30:13
The Confession 37:41:20
Beside the Bed 37:54:16
Regret 38:10:00
The Avenger 38:24:11
Suspense 38:36:46
Decorated! 38:49:56
The Father 39:02:35
The String 39:23:03
A Wise Man 39:38:37
The First Fall of Snow 39:54:40
The Model 40:13:23
Practical Jokes 40:27:53
The Hand 40:40:45
Waiter, a Bock 40:55:21
The Old Man 41:10:40
Letter Found on a Drowned Man 41:27:09
The Christening 41:40:42
Coco 41:50:50
Misti 42:00:34
A Coward 42:12:55
Rose 42:32:32
A Traveller’s Notes 42:45:54
The Patron 42:57:08
The Umbrella 43:08:19
An Idyll 43:27:24
A Sale 43:37:42
Mother Savage 43:51:10
The Tramp 44:07:40
A Meeting 44:20:03
The Legacy 44:39:35
Happiness 47:24:38
Farewell 47:39:50
Solitude 47:51:33
My Landlady 48:05:09
The Little Cask 48:20:18
Châli 48:33:41
The Drunkard 48:57:52
A Woman’s Hair 49:09:50
The Horrible 49:27:52
A Memory 49:40:36
A Walk 49:56:18
The Sisters Rondoli 50:10:26
What the Colonel Thought 51:17:04
Bed No. 29 51:30:04
Nerves 51:55:52
Confessing 52:08:17
Fear 52:20:01
The Return 52:37:38
The Tomb 52:51:02
The Confession 53:00:36
The Castaway 53:15:56
Yvette 53:34:32
Mad? 56:25:39
Unmasked 56:40:52
The Dowry 56:51:42
Mohammed-Fripouille 57:04:50
The Legacy 57:22:07
The Keeper 57:35:06
Berthe 57:51:37
Bombard 58:13:36
The Confession 58:26:03
The Revenge 58:43:11
Country Courts 59:05:00
Room No. Eleven 59:15:38
The Closet 59:31:58
Military Honors 59:46:12
For Sale 60:10:29
’Toine 60:25:45
The Christening 60:48:15
The Unknown 60:59:46
Blue and White 61:15:26
Our Friends the English 61:26:10
Letter from a Madman 61:43:00
Old Mongilet 61:57:59
Roger’s Method 62:10:37
In a Railway Carriage 62:19:16
The Little Soldier 62:34:20
Checkmate 62:50:41
Joseph 63:08:04
Finis 63:22:47
The Hairpin 63:37:50
The Secret 63:52:16
My Twenty-Five Days 64:06:00
A Madman 64:23:58
Indiscretion 64:42:56
Mister Belhomme’s Beast 64:57:09
The Woodcocks 65:16:12
Monsieur Parent 65:36:55
Ça Ira 67:15:25
Saved 67:34:14
Little Roque 67:47:34
The Wreck 69:11:59
Mademoiselle Pearl 69:40:22
The Hermit 70:20:35
On Cats 70:38:07
Rosalie Prudent 70:52:35
Madame Parisse 71:02:13
Julie Romain 71:18:17
The Sign 71:37:16
Old Amable 71:52:21
A Family 72:40:19
The Devil 72:53:00
A Divorce Case 73:09:54
The Inn 73:27:35
Are We to Teach Latin? 74:00:02
The Hole 74:18:30
The Marquis of Fumerol 74:34:30
The Farmer 74:50:55
A Cry of Alarm 75:06:31
Love 75:20:56
Clochette 75:34:31
In the Wood 75:46:18
The Tramp 75:57:46
A New Year’s Gift 76:25:11
Madame Hermet 76:38:25
Epiphany 76:56:19
One Night’s Entertainment 77:23:40
The Door 77:38:27
The Baroness 77:50:30
The Horla 78:01:07
Night 79:09:11
The Dead Woman 79:23:16
Madame Husson’s May King 79:36:39
The Father 80:17:01
The Rabbit 80:27:11
The Orderly 80:44:15
Moiron 80:52:52
The Assassin 81:08:08
Duchoux 81:20:25
The Rival Pins 81:35:46
Divorce 81:46:14
Our Letters 82:04:58
The Mother Superior’s Twenty-Five Francs 82:17:54
The Drowned Man 82:30:55
The Cripple 82:47:11
A Portrait 83:00:15
Hautot and His Son 83:10:45
One Evening 83:40:39
Boitelle 84:20:25
Allouma 84:39:05
The Rendezvous 85:30:33
In Port 85:46:46
The Mask 86:05:40
The Test 86:27:23
Alexander 86:49:20
The Putter-to-Sleep 86:59:58
Mouche 87:21:03
The Olive Orchard 87:43:24
Useless Beauty 88:42:30
Who Knows? 89:29:39
Graveyard Sirens 90:01:46
After 90:18:51
The Pedlar 90:32:10

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Guy de Maupassant is considered one of the preeminent writers in the realm of the short story. In a little over a decade he produced almost three hundred stories, many of which (e.g. “Boule de Suif,” “The Little Soldier”) are judged to be classics of the genre.

As a protégé of Flaubert and contemporary of Zola, Maupassant was an early practitioner of naturalism, and his stories often reflect the stark, harsh outlook that marked that movement. Brutality—towards women, as a result of war, or just representing the baseness of humankind—is a common thread. Yet stories like “Beside the Bed” and “Country Courts” show that he had a sense of humor as well. But no matter the subject, what sets Maupassant’s stories apart is his unerring ability to paint the details of the story’s setting and participants in such a way that the reader feels as if they are part of the action.

This edition includes all Maupassant stories that are known to have been translated into English, including five that have not appeared in any other English collection. It does not include the sixty-six so-called “fake” Maupassants, stories that were attributed to Maupassant but not written by him that appeared in several English collections at the turn of the twentieth century.

Narrateur: Qwen3-TTS Aiden
Durée: 90 h 47 min
Langue: English
Ajouté: 20 septembre 2026
Ebook source: Standard Ebooks
Licence: Public domain