Maupassant
Americannoun
noun
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And is not Guy de Maupassant out of place in the early seventies?
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
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
The noted Latinist Helen Waddell convincingly likened him to Maupassant.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2018
Once, they had ventured into “The Necklace,” by Maupassant, and at a rehearsal Bella had watched with abhorrence the boy who was playing her insignificant husband kick open an imaginary door.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
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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