Guy de Maupassant
168 books, mostly short stories, for Deadtree Publishing and Spoken Realms, 2004–2026
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was a prolific French author who became famous after the publication of “Boule de Suif” in 1880. He wrote more than 300 short stories and six novels, portraying 19th-century French life with concise, realistic, and often pessimistic observation. He also published poetry, travel writing, and journalism, and is regarded as a major figure associated with French Realism and Naturalism.
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168 audiobooks
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
October 7, 2026
The Paris Classics Collection: Stories of the City - 11 Stories from Orwell, Dickens, Dumas, & Much More
Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Collette, Victor Hugo, André Gide, Gaston Leroux, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Baroness Orczy, George Orwell, Stendhal, Baroness Emmuska Orczy
September 10, 2026
Short Story Masterpieces
Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Nikolai Gogol
September 3, 2026
Guy de Maupassant: Original Short Stories (Annotated)
Guy de Maupassant
August 24, 2026
Two Friends
Guy de Maupassant
July 29, 2026
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
July 23, 2026
The Piece of String
Guy de Maupassant
July 9, 2026
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
July 7, 2026
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2026
A Life
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2026
Our Heart
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2026
Strong as Death
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2026
Mont-Oriol
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2026
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
June 11, 2026
Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant
June 11, 2026
The Necklace (Annotated)
Guy de Maupassant
May 6, 2026
A Ghost
Guy de Maupassant
April 15, 2026
Classic Detective Stories of the Victorian Era
Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant
March 17, 2026
Murder International
Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Honore de Balzac, Stacy Aumonier, Alexander Pushkin, W. Somerset Maugham, Friedrich Durrenmatt
January 22, 2026
Walter Schnaffs' Adventure
Guy de Maupassant
January 12, 2026
Three Classic Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant
October 22, 2025
The Piece of String
Guy de Maupassant
July 3, 2025
Two Friends
Guy de Maupassant
May 27, 2025
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
April 24, 2025
Boule de Suif
Guy de Maupassant
April 23, 2025
The Top 10 Short Stories - Mens 1880s
Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Frank R Stockton, Vsevolod Garshin, Frank Stockton, Robert L Stevenson, Anton Palovich Chekhov
March 25, 2025
Clair De Lune
Guy de Maupassant
March 19, 2025
Love & Choices - Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Jack London, O. Henry, Joseph Conrad, Eliza Haywood, Frank R Stockton, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Frances Watkins Harper, Tod Robbins, Nikolay Gogol, Frank Stockton
March 17, 2025
Short Stories About War
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Ford Maddox Ford, John Buchan, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Luigi Pirandello, Katherine Mansfield, Stacy Aumonier, Isaac Babel, Winifred Holtby, John Buchan Peter
February 14, 2025
World's Greatest Short Stories
Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Daniel Defoe, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Benjamin Franklin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edgar Allen Poe, Nicolai Gogol, Herman Meville
February 5, 2025
Love & Deception - Short Stories
Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Guy de Maupassant, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit, Kate Chopin, Rudyard Kipling, Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Grahame, Tod Robbins, Ellen Glasgow, Israel Zangwill, Ella D'Arcy, Giovanni Verga, E. Nesbit, Virginia Woolfe
January 7, 2025
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
October 31, 2024
3 Stories - Prostitutes
Guy de Maupassant, Wallace Thurman, Vicente Blasco Ibanez
October 29, 2024
3 Stories - Irony
Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, W W Jacobs
October 23, 2024
3 Stories About - Mothers
Guy de Maupassant, Barbara Baynton
October 23, 2024
3 Stories - Parents Losing a Child
Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Leonid Andreyev
October 23, 2024
Anthology of Classic Short Stories 1 (Characters)
Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Prosper Merimee, Mary E. Mann, Herman Meville
October 23, 2024
Newlyweds - Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Stephen Crane, Bram Stoker, Arnold Bennett, Marjorie Bowen, Dorothy Parker, E. Nesbit
August 27, 2024
The Top 10 Short Stories - European Gothic
Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Ernst T. A. Hoffmann, Niccolo Machiavelli, Miguel de Cervantes, Sheridan Le Fanu, Alexander Pushkin, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Ernst Raupach, Theophile Gautier, Nikolay Gogol, Miguel Cervantes
August 20, 2024
The Top 10 Short Stories - Buried in Paris
Voltaire, Victor Hugo, David Rintoul, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Alphonse Daudet, Gertrude Stein, Honore de Balzac, Jean Lorrain, Marcel Schwob
August 20, 2024
The Top 10 Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
July 31, 2024
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
June 12, 2024
Short Stories About Murder
Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, J. M. Barrie, Susan Glaspell, G.K. Chesterton, M R James, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert L Stevenson
January 19, 2024
The Guy de Maupassant BBC Radio Drama Collection
Guy de Maupassant
October 19, 2023
Ball of Fat
Guy de Maupassant
July 6, 2023
Stories to Make You Cry
Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Katherine Mansfield, Ivan Turgenev, Sherwood Anderson, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Anton Palovich Chekhov
June 22, 2023
Short Stories About Grief
Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Bret Harte, Luigi Pirandello, Katherine Mansfield, James Weldon Johnson, Barry Pain, D H Lawrence
June 22, 2023
Short Stories About Suicide
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Mary Shelley, O. Henry, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Honore de Balzac, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Levy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolfe, Tagore
June 22, 2023
700 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 19th Century
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stendhal
May 19, 2023
1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Stendhal, François de la Rochefoucauld, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine
May 19, 2023
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
May 4, 2023
The Kiss
Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin
May 4, 2023
Pierre & Jean
Guy de Maupassant
March 30, 2023
Ball of Fat
Guy de Maupassant
March 30, 2023
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
March 30, 2023
A Woman's Life
Guy de Maupassant
March 30, 2023
Bel Ami
Guy de Maupassant
February 28, 2023
100 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
December 21, 2022
B. J. Harrison Reads Fear and Was It A Dream?
Guy de Maupassant
June 2, 2022
The Entire Original Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
March 24, 2022
25 Unmissable Horror Stories
Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allen Poe
September 22, 2021
The Complete Original Short Stories Volume XIII
Guy de Maupassant
July 27, 2021
The Complete Original Short Stories, Vol XII
Guy de Maupassant
June 16, 2021
The Complete Original Short Stories Volume XI
Guy de Maupassant
May 12, 2021
The Complete Original Short Stories, Volume X
Guy de Maupassant
February 3, 2021
A Night in Whitechapel
Guy de Maupassant
September 30, 2020
Was it a Dream?
Guy de Maupassant
September 30, 2020
The Complete Original Short Stories, Volume IX
Guy de Maupassant
July 31, 2020
Complete Original Short Stories Volume VIII
Guy de Maupassant
May 6, 2020
The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
April 7, 2020
The Moribund
Guy de Maupassant
March 9, 2020
A Vendetta
Guy de Maupassant
March 9, 2020
The Complete Original Short Stories, Volume VII
Guy de Maupassant
February 27, 2020
The Wolf
Guy de Maupassant
February 25, 2020
The Artist
Guy de Maupassant
February 12, 2020
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume III
H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, E. F. Benson, Bram Stoker, E.F. Benson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herbert George Wells
February 11, 2020
Legend of Mont St. Michel
Guy de Maupassant
February 6, 2020
Mother Sauvage
Guy de Maupassant
February 6, 2020
The Tell Tale Heart and Other Creepy Classics
H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe, Herbert George Wells
September 12, 2019
The False Gems & Other Tales of Obsession
Guy de Maupassant
September 3, 2019
The Complete Original Short Stories, Volume VI
Guy de Maupassant
August 5, 2019
Complete Original Short Stories, Volume V
Guy de Maupassant
March 25, 2019
Theatre Royal - The Country of the Blind & Little Louise: Episode 7
Guy de Maupassant, Herbert George Wells
February 18, 2019
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV
Guy de Maupassant
November 16, 2018
The Diary of a Madman
Guy de Maupassant
September 28, 2018
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
September 13, 2018
Complete Original Short Stories - Volume 3
Guy de Maupassant
August 6, 2018
6 Novels by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
April 18, 2018
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
April 18, 2018
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
February 21, 2018
A Very French Christmas
Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel
October 10, 2017
Boule de Suif
Guy de Maupassant
August 7, 2017
Original Short Stories, Volume II
Guy de Maupassant
February 27, 2017
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume I
Guy de Maupassant
January 23, 2017
Stories
Guy de Maupassant
December 9, 2016
Fair Tales of Fowl
H.G. Wells, Guy de Maupassant, Robert E. Howard, Sherwood Anderson, Herbert George Wells
November 7, 2016
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The Horla [Classic Tales Edition]
Guy de Maupassant
August 9, 2016
Six Classic Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolfe
June 24, 2016
A Ghost
Guy de Maupassant
May 10, 2016
Great Vampire Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, M R James, E.F. Benson
April 19, 2016
Ghosts, Werewolves and Vampires
Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Bram Stoker, M R James, E.F. Benson
March 25, 2016
9 French Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant
March 10, 2016
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
February 11, 2016
A Piece of String
Guy de Maupassant
August 27, 2015
Great Radio Horror
Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allen Poe
July 31, 2015
Ten Tales from the Artist's Studio
Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K Jerome, Barry Pain, E.F. Benson, Edgar Allen Poe
March 2, 2015
Half Hour Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker, W W Jacobs, E.F. Benson, Edgar Allen Poe
January 23, 2015
Fifteen Minute Stories
Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe
January 20, 2015
Ten Minute Tales
Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, W W Jacobs, Edgar Allen Poe
January 13, 2015
Twenty Minute Tales
Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Jerome K Jerome, Edgar Allen Poe
January 13, 2015
Cupid's Bedside Book
Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Jerome K Jerome, Morley Roberts, Apuleius, Charles Reade
July 10, 2014
The Best European Short Stories
Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, Guy de Maupassant, Friedrich Schiller, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Sand
July 8, 2014
Dark Tales
Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, M R James
June 23, 2014
Around the World in 80 Tales
Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Guy Boothby, Edgar Allen Poe
May 19, 2014
Unusual Short Stories
Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Stacy Aumonier, John Galsworthy, W W Jacobs, D H Lawrence
March 20, 2014
Tales to Remember
Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Grahame
January 27, 2014
Am I Insane?
Guy de Maupassant
January 17, 2014
Modern Ghosts
Guy de Maupassant
November 19, 2013
An Anthology of Classic Stories
Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Ambrose Bierce, W W Jacobs, D H Lawrence, Edgar Allen Poe
November 14, 2013
Pierre et Jean
Guy de Maupassant
August 7, 2013
Boule De Suif, The Necklace, and Other Stories
Guy de Maupassant
July 31, 2013
Une Vie (Complete Series)
Guy de Maupassant
May 23, 2013
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, James Weldon Johnson, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert L Stevenson
August 2, 2012
Tales of the Unexpected
Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield
March 29, 2012
Great Ghost Stories
Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe
March 5, 2012
The Hand
Guy de Maupassant
February 17, 2012
Selected European Short Stories
Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Palovich Chekhov
February 15, 2012
The Horla
Guy de Maupassant
August 5, 2011
Midnight Terror: Classic Tales of Vampires
Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, E. F. Benson, E. Nesbit, E.F. Benson
August 5, 2011
Bel Ami
Guy de Maupassant
June 16, 2011
Maupassant Magic
Guy de Maupassant
June 14, 2011
Classic French Dramas starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 2
Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac
April 22, 2011
Favorite Love Stories, Volume 1
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Sarah Orne Jewett, F Scott Fitzgerald
February 15, 2011
Guy de Maupassant: Selected Stories
Guy de Maupassant
January 27, 2011
Classic Tales of Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, H. P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, G.K. Chesterton
January 29, 2010
Great Classic Love Stories
Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Guy de Maupassant, William Shakespeare, Willa Cather, Herman Meville
January 25, 2010
13 Tales of Sonic Horror, Volume 4
Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allen Poe
July 22, 2009
Growing Old
Guy de Maupassant
November 20, 2008
Shortalk Classic Shorts
Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde
September 23, 2008
Great French and Russian Short Stories, Volume 2
Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoevsky
July 15, 2008
Classic Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, A. M. Burrage, W L George
July 15, 2008
The Grave
Guy de Maupassant
December 30, 2007
Useless Beauty
Guy de Maupassant
December 30, 2007
Classic Tales of the Undead
Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker
December 30, 2007
A Piece of String
Guy de Maupassant
December 30, 2007
Classic Game Encounters (Unabridged Selections)
Guy de Maupassant
December 10, 2007
The False Jewels
Guy de Maupassant
March 26, 2007
Classic Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens, Saki, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, P.C. Wren
February 13, 2007
Classic French Short Stories, Volume 1
Guy de Maupassant, Anatole France, Albert Camus
July 20, 2006
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, with eBook
Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka
February 7, 2006
Classic Ghost Stories, Volume 2
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce
January 1, 2006
Pierre and John
Guy de Maupassant
December 26, 2004
The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 1
Guy de Maupassant
Der Horla - Live aus dem Glaspalast Berlin
Guy de Maupassant
Himmel blau, Leben grün
Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Heinrich Heine
Bahnwärter Thiel / Der Horla
Guy de Maupassant
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allen Poe
Great Werewolf Classics
Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Marryat, Robert L Stevenson
3 Stories - Horror Stories in Diaries
Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant
3 Stories About - Hope & Dreams
Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Susan Glaspell
3 Stories About - Class & Status
Guy de Maupassant, Ernst T. A. Hoffmann, Katherine Mansfield
Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection
Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mikhail Bulgakov, Barry Pain, Nikolay Gogol, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Virginia Woolfe
Wonderful Short Stories
Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Mansfield, Kenneth Grahame, Barry Pain, George Gissing, Olive Schreiner
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of the Macabre
Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Robert L Stevenson
Fifty Great Classic Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Kenneth Grahame, D H Lawrence, Edgar Allen Poe
Uncommon Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Allen Poe
Timeless Short Stories
D. H. Lawrence, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Wilkie Collins, Katherine Mansfield, Stacy Aumonier, W W Jacobs, D H Lawrence
The Best French Short Stories
Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Theophile Gautier
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