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Bel-ami
Guy de Maupassant
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Description for Bel-ami
Paperback. Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. Translator(s): Parmee, Douglas. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmée in Penguin Classics.
Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140443158
SKU
V9780140443158
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-24
About Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. By the late 1870s, the first signs of syphilis had appeared, and Maupassant had become Flaubert's pupil in the art of prose. He led a hectic social life, and in 1891, having tried to commit suicide, he was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later. ... Read more
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