# Bel-ami

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- Book: [Bel-ami](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant/bel-ami) ([Bel-ami.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant/bel-ami.md))
- Authors: [Guy de Maupassant](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-de-maupassant)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-484-9
- Published: 1975-08-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.