9780199553938-0199553939-Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics)

Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780199553938
ISBN-10: 0199553939
Edition: 1
Author: Guy de Maupassant, Margaret Mauldon, Robert Lethbridge
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199553938
ISBN-10: 0199553939
Edition: 1
Author: Guy de Maupassant, Margaret Mauldon, Robert Lethbridge
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780199553938 and ISBN-10: 0199553939), written by authors Guy de Maupassant, Margaret Mauldon, Robert Lethbridge, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Bel-Ami (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.33.

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Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. 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.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition currently available.

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