Maupassant
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Maupassant hated the tower so much that, almost every day, he ate his lunch in the restaurant at the foot of the tower.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
I suppose Mrs. Wharton knows her Maupassant thoroughly; but unless I am quite at fault, it was not in the early seventies, but in the early eighties, that his tales began to appear.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
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
When she went through a death-obsessed phase, as many teen-agers do, she consoled herself by reading Guy de Maupassant.
From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017
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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