Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer from Normandy who turned the short story into a precision tool. He wrote six novels and around 300 stories in just over a decade.
Here you'll find free Guy de Maupassant books in PDF, from Bel-Ami and The Necklace to The Horla. They're grouped into novels, short stories and horror tales.
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Novels
Guy de Maupassant Novels
Maupassant wrote six novels in seven years, and Bel-Ami is the one everyone remembers. All six are here, plus Yvette, a short novel you can finish in one evening.
Georges Duroy arrives in Paris broke and leaves it rich, using nothing but charm, journalism and the women around him. Maupassant's most famous novel, a sharp portrait of ambition and the press in 1880s Paris.
Maupassant's first novel, A Woman's Life, follows Jeanne from her convent-school dreams to a marriage that slowly takes everything from her. This volume of his collected works adds a selection of short stories after the novel.
A banker turns a spring in the Auvergne into a fashionable spa while his wife falls into an affair that ends badly. Maupassant's third novel mixes money, medicine and romance, with a sharp eye for small-town greed.
When Jean inherits a fortune from an old family friend, his brother Pierre starts to suspect why. A short, tense novel about jealousy and a family secret, in the classic Clara Bell translation.
A celebrated painter realizes he has fallen for the daughter of the woman he has loved for years. Maupassant's most melancholy novel, about aging, fame and a love that refuses to let go.
André Mariolle falls hard for Michèle de Burne, a Paris society hostess who enjoys being adored but will not love back. Maupassant's last finished novel, with a critical preface by Paul Bourget.
Yvette grows up in her mother's glamorous Paris salon without understanding what it really is, until a suitor forces her to see it. A short novel you can read in an evening.
Maupassant's short stories are where he is at his best, with sharp endings that still surprise readers. Start with The Necklace and Boule de Suif, then try the complete collection of more than 180 stories.
Mathilde borrows a diamond necklace for one glamorous night and loses it. Maupassant's best-known story and its famous twist ending, ready to read in ten minutes.
Opens with Boule de Suif, the 1880 story about a coach full of respectable citizens and the woman they use and discard, which made Maupassant famous overnight. Volume I of his collected works, with Mademoiselle Fifi and more war stories.
Two Parisian friends sneak past the lines to go fishing during the Prussian siege, and run into the enemy. A short, devastating war story often read in school.
All 13 volumes of the Original Short Stories in one file: more than 180 stories, from Boule de Suif to The Diamond Necklace. The book to download if you want the full Maupassant.
Few readers expect it, but Maupassant also wrote some of the scariest tales of the 19th century. Read The Horla first, a story he wrote as his own mind began to fail.
The Horla is the diary of a man convinced an invisible being is feeding on him, written as Maupassant's own mind was starting to fail. This collection pairs it with more of his strange and unsettling tales.
A grieving man spends the night at his lover's grave and sees the dead rise to rewrite their own epitaphs. A short ghost story with a cruel final line.
In an asylum cell, a doctor reads the diary of a man who fell in love with a lock of hair hidden in an antique desk, and believed the dead woman came back for him.
Maupassant learned to write under Gustave Flaubert, who corrected his drafts for years. He drew on what he saw firsthand: Norman farmers, Paris office clerks and soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War.
Chekhov and O. Henry both learned from his endings. Explore more classic authors and keep reading the writers who shaped modern fiction.
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