Maupassant
Americannoun
noun
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The six novels Maupassant wrote between 1880 and 1890 are well worth reading, but few dispute the claim that his best work appears in his stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mr. Fiennes roams the gardens that surround the home Maupassant had built in 1883 and cycles by a stretch of the Seine where the author sailed his boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
Instead, to Gogol Ganguli’s relief, they take turns reading aloud from “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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