Bel ami
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781596741256 (electronic bk.) MWT11932826, 1596741252 (electronic bk.) 11932826
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Bel Ami," written at the height of Maupassant's career, is his second novel, published in 1885. The story chronicles Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power. Georges, a down-and-out journalist, comes from a humble background yet concocts a spectacular rise to the top of Parisian society, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent and wealthy mistresses. "Bel Ami" is not only a vivid portrait of a glamorously crooked and long-vanished Paris, but also a strikingly modern depiction of the destructiveness of unconstrained ambition, sex and power
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