Overview

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity.

ISBN-13

9780140443158

ISBN-10

0140443150

Weight

0.63 Pounds

Dimensions

7.77 x 5.09 x 0.82 In

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Edition

1st Edition

Format

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Pages

416 pages

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published On

1975-11-30



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