Maupassant
Americannoun
noun
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It would be years yet before I would see “Operation Beton,” his debut documentary of 1955, and “Une Femme Coquette,” his 1956 feature short adapted from the Maupassant story “The Sign.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
The great realist writers of the 19th century — Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, Zola and Dostoyevsky — made the subject central to modern literature.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
A doctor, an artist and a madam appear in vignettes from stories by Guy de Maupassant.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2020
As for Turgenev: He could count Tolstoy, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Henry James — not your usual fanboys — among the most fervent admirers of his urbane and melancholy fiction.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2019
He read the letter as another student in the class did irreparable damage to the French language and a short story by de Maupassant.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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