Bel-Ami (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Patricia T’s request to combine 2 books, including Bel-Ami, 3 weeks ago.

Patricia T submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Bel-Ami, 3 weeks ago.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Bel-Ami Friday, October 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Guy de Maupassant: (Primary Author)

Daniel Z edited the contributors of Bel-Ami Tuesday, October 6 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Guy DeMaupassant: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Bel-Ami Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends 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 and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, Bel-Ami is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity and humanity.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Bel-Ami Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Guy DeMaupassant: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Margaret Mauldon: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Bel-Ami Thursday, July 16 2009.

• When the cashier had handed him the change from his five-franc piece,* Georges Duroy left the restaurant.