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Maupassant

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Mau·pas·sant  (mp-sänt, m-p-sä), (Henri René Albert) Guy de 1850-1893.
French writer whose works, mainly realistic short stories such as "The Necklace," examine hypocrisy, madness, Parisian society, and peasant life in Normandy.
Maupassant (French) [mopɑsɑ̃]
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(Biographies / Maupassant, (Henri René Albert) Guy de (1850-1893) M, French, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer) (Henri René Albert) Guy de (gi də). 1850-93, French writer, noted esp for his short stories, such as Boule de suif (1880), La Maison Tellier (1881), and Mademoiselle Fifi (1883). His novels include Bel Ami (1885) and Pierre et Jean (1888)
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Noun1.MaupassantMaupassant - French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893)
Guy de Maupassant, Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant


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This may not be saying a great deal, but it is saying the truth, and I do not mind owning that he has been one of my great literary passions, almost as great as Flaubert, and greater than Daudet or Maupassant, though I have profoundly appreciated the exquisite artistry of both these.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Before that, however, he had lived much in Paris, frequented the Goncourt grenier, been advised by Maupassant not to attempt to write (even that seemed to Archer a dazzling honour
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
Ambrose would have suggested Defoe, Maupassant, or some spacious chronicle of family life, Rachel chose modern books, books in shiny yellow covers, books with a great deal of gilding on the back, which were tokens in her aunt's eyes of harsh wrangling and disputes about facts which had no such importance as the moderns claimed for them.
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