Its just a shame that for me course books such as Maupassant and Flaubert have to come first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adoption] Reference

I felt like a character out of a Maupassant story.    From Wordnik.com.  [House-Sitting Politics: Food, Perfume, Dogs��� All Mine! Or Is It?] Reference

Each one read his story, Maupassant being the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Why did Maupassant at the start win universal favor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant retired to Cannes not far from his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Even a Maupassant found it a humiliating anti-climax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Maupassant had to bend to the conditions of his new life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant we re-encounter Hegel's notion of nothingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference

I guess nobody has read this Guy de Maupassant short story.    From Wordnik.com.  [They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don't They?] Reference

Soho the Dog: Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent] Reference

Defoe, Maupassant, or some spacious chronicle of family life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

If Maupassant draws from anyone it is Schopenhauer and Herbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant himself tells us of those severe initiations in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant and the applause of such connoisseurs of technique as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

Those who first saw Maupassant when the Contes de la Bécasse and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant was always impatient to “realize” his observations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Daudet, Maupassant, and George Eliot as well as Zola under this title.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALISM IN LITERATURE] Reference

And yet Maupassant adores this nature, the one thing that moves him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant, who is sometimes insensible to quantity as he is to harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

From his first battle, Maupassant was master of the field in literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Though he neither feels like Loti nor sees like Maupassant -- he reflects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It reminds me of the old story which Maupassant used to tell to his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belloc Speaks - The Schools] Reference

Maupassant, with all the imagination and all the strength of that great master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

Upon feelings of this sort Maupassant based some of his most felicitous stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

My mother had read Madame Bovary and she knew it was by Flaubert, not Maupassant.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

Maupassant used to say if you write three pages a day, it's a thousand pages a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry] Reference

But what about short stories in the manner of Chekhov and Hawthorne and de Maupassant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [log-jam] Reference

Maupassant, he is the greatest of them all, in the sense that he is the supreme artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jew and other stories] Reference

How might such "rules" be applied to the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne? de Maupassant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative Strategies] Reference

In his pessimism, Maupassant despises the race, society, civilization and the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

But this sensitiveness that Maupassant seeks to hide, is plain to all clear-seeing people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

To identify Maupassant with his characters is a gross error, but is not without precedent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

During these long years of his novitiate Maupassant had entered the social literary circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Léonie Bathiat was first called Arlette, supposedly inspired from a de Maupassant character.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Deader'n Hell"] Reference

“Contemporains” has written that Maupassant produced novels as an apple-tree yields apples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

Maupassant made two divisions of his spare hours, one for boating, and the other for literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une Vie] Reference

The stories benefit from a classical sense of balance and form that brings to mind Maupassant, O.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silver Kelly and My Golden Age] Reference

Germany -- we esteem Anatole France, Maupassant, Flaubert, Balzac, as if they were German authors.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference