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Definition of Guy de maupassant
1. Noun. French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guy De Maupassant
Literary usage of Guy de maupassant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"guy de maupassant (1850-1893) BY FIRMIN ROZ IHEN, after a volume of poetry, ...
By temperament, by education, Guy de Maupassant was above all a realist. ..."
2. Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys (1916)
"As one reads Guy de Maupassant one breathes heavily as if it were oneself and
not another upon whom the tension and the sweat of the crisis has come. ..."
3. Writing the Short-story: A Practical Handbook on the Rise, Structure by Joseph Berg Esenwein (1909)
"Read the story a third time, slowly, to make a study of its parts, noting results
as in the appended example. THE NECKLACE BY guy de maupassant ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"guy de maupassant/ BY COUNT LN TOLSTOI. IF I am not mistaken, it was in 1881 that
... Guy de Maupassant ..."