Definition of Maupassant

1. Noun. French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Maupassant

Maughamian
Maui
Maui Island
Mauldin
Maulis
Maulvibazar District
Mauna Kea
Mauna Loa
Maunday Thursday
Maunday coin
Maunday money
Maunder minimum
Maundy
Maundy Thursday
Maundy money
Maura
Maureen
Maureen Catherine Connolly
Maurer's clefts
Maurer's dots
Mauresque
Mauretania
Mauretanian
Mauriac
Mauriac's syndrome
Maurice
Maurice Barrymore
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

Literary usage of Maupassant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"He wrote this in an article entitled Guy de maupassant and the Art of Fiction. ... But maupassant affected Tolstoy as he had affected ..."

2. Literary Reviews and Criticisms by Prosser Hall Frye (1908)
"maupassant IN ENGLISH IT is only ten years since maupassant was buried—on ... Nor is there, indeed, very much in maupassant to attach us permanently. ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... by the organic dissection of the Guv DE maupassant characters, atavism, the influence of environment and circumstances,— all determinism, in a word. ..."

4. French Literature of To-day: A Study of the Principal Romancers and Essayists by Yetta Blaze de Bury (1898)
"One of his former chiefs (at an early age maupassant was a private secretary in one of the Ministeres) said of him : " He has never been guided in his ..."

5. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"maupassant evidently possessed that gift of seeing in subjects something which others did not see. But, to judge from the small volume which I had read, ..."

6. The Short-story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development by Brander Matthews (1907)
"THE NECKLACE By GUY DE maupassant (1850-1893) maupassant was a born story-teller; ... In terseness, in tenseness., in compactness, maupassant is unrivaled. ..."

7. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"THE unchallenged master of the short story in French is Guy de maupassant (1850-1893). He was a scion of an old Norman noble family and a nephew of Flaubert ..."

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