Les Contes de la bécasse est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, publié en 1883.Le 20 mars 1883, Guy de Maupassant signe avec les éditeurs Rouveyre et Blond un contrat de neuf années garantissant un premier tirage de deux mille exemplaires, l'auteur touchera 50 centimes par exemplaire jusqu'à hauteur de trois mille exemplaires puis un franc pour les suivants.Le recueil n'atteignant pas trois cents pages, Guy de Maupassant rajoute les nouvelles Saint-Antoine et L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs.En février 1884, Guy de Maupassant touche deux mille cinq cents francs, soit une vente de quatre mille exemplaires.La toute première nouvelle du recueil, La Bécasse, sert de préambule, de récit-cadre, au recueil. Durant la période de la chasse à la bécasse, le vieux baron des Ravots, amateur de chasse et d'histoires, organise des dîners au cours desquels la cérémonie du "conte de la bécasse" désigne celui qui aura le privilège de manger toutes les têtes de bécasse ; l'heureux élu doit ensuite conter une histoire pour "indemniser les déshérités".Les nouvelles suivantes sont censées être quelques-unes de ces histoires.Cette structure rappelle celle du Décaméron de Boccace.

Contes divers (1881) — Opinion publique, Par un soir de printemps, Histoire d'un chien, Histoire corse, Épaves

Contes du jour et de la nuit est un recueil de contes de Guy de Maupassant paru en 1885 aux éditions Marpon-Flammarion, coll. Bibliothèque illustrée.

A painter torn between his domestic arrangements and his artistic pursuits makes a fateful choice in this brilliant and provocative novel from a winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.Timothy Kane brought his wife and young daughter to Cape Cod in order to find the peace and quiet necessary to paint. But the mood inside their small cottage is far from tranquil — a past affair weighs on Timothy’s conscience, and the strain of running a household by herself is causing Enid to resent her husband.To make matters worse, Timothy’s friend Jim Connor has decided to move to the Cape and bring a gaggle of their Greenwich Village acquaintances with him. A committed anarchist, Jim does more than just preach the redistribution of wealth: He accomplishes it himself by shoplifting from department stores and giving the loot to struggling poets and painters. Jim and his rabble-rousing, art-obsessed crew stir up trouble wherever they go, and Timothy’s association with the group soon becomes a major point of contention between him and Enid. She expects him to sacrifice his friendship for the sake of his family’s security — a demand that runs counter to Timothy’s nature and his sense of what it means to be an artist. With the pressure mounting, he must find a way to balance his marriage and his work, or risk devastating consequences to both.An exquisitely crafted story about the hard truths of the creative life, Conversation has been lauded by the New York Times as a testament to “the brilliance of [Conrad Aiken’s] mind and the understanding of his heart.”

These three short stories, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon, explore the roles of loneliness, compassion, beauty, and forgiveness in day-to-day life in Japan, all within the context of the Buddhist-influenced notion of inescapable predestination.