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
The contrast of town and country gave Guy de Maupassant targets for satire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de Maupassant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
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
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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