
1) Guy de Maupassant novel
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Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy`s corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by ....
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(from the article `Maupassant, Guy de`) Maupassant`s most important full-length novels are Une Vie, Bel-Ami (1885; `Good Friend`), and Pierre et Jean (1888). Bel-Ami is drawn from the ... ...A Woman`s Life), with its echoes of Madame Bovary, through the detached but destructive portrait of the worlds of journalism and finance ...
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