Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man) by Guy de Maupassant
"Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man)" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel published in 1885. It follows Georges Duroy, a poor former soldier, as he manipulates his way through Parisian high society by seducing powerful and wealthy women. Using charm and ruthless ambition, Duroy transforms from a struggling clerk into a successful journalist and social climber. The story exposes the corruption of the press and upper classes while chronicling one man's calculated
ascent to power through affairs, marriages, and betrayals in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 |
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| Title |
Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man) The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel-Ami |
| Credits |
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Conduct of life -- Fiction |
| Subject | Social classes -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Journalists -- Fiction |
| Subject | Seduction -- Fiction |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 33928 |
| Release Date | Oct 13, 2010 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 778 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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