Name: Bel Ami
Price: 256.00 ZAR
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Author: Guy De Maupassant
ISBN: 9781420970401

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guy De Maupassant

Publisher

Digireads.com

Language

English

Pages

118

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781420970401

Synopsis "Bel Ami"

Guy de Maupassant, one of the 19th century's most admired French writers, is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern short story. Maupassant's stories are characterized by their wealth of style, clever plotting and effortless resolutions. Many of his stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge from catastrophe and change. "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. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Guy De Maupassant

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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th century French naturalist writer and poet, renowned as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, which described human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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