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| Maupassant’s vision was of solid superficies, of texture which his hands could touch, of action which his mind could comprehend from the mere sight of its incidents. |
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| 1850–93, French novelist and short-story writer, of an ancient Norman family.… He poured out a prodigious number of short stories, novels, plays, and travel sketches until 1891, when he went mad. He died in a sanitarium. Maupassant’s style and treatment of subject resemble those of Flaubert in classic simplicity, clarity, and objective calm. Maupassant is a modern exemplar of traditional French psychological realism; he portrays his characters as unhappy victims of their greed, desire, or vanity but presents even the most sordid details of their lives without sermonizing.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  m ´p -sänt´´, m-p -sä ´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure and Two Friends
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIII, Part 5.
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- The Necklace
From Matthews’s the Short-Story.
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