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Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel
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Guy de Maupassant's novel follows Georges Duroy, an ambitious former soldier who climbs Parisian society by seducing and manipulating influential women. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and satirical portraits of ambition and journalism.
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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