Monday, 1 October 2012

99 CENT BOOK FIND: Bel Ami (Illustrated) by Guy de Maupassant


Available for JUST 99 CENTS is Bel Ami (Illustrated)  by Guy de Maupassant  (Click here for UK purchase).  Why not download this  before it goes back to full price?




BOOK DESCRIPTION
• The book includes 10 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content.

Bel Ami is French author Guy de Maupassant's second novel, 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 manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.

It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.

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