Maupassant, Guy de,  1850-1893 <br/><br/>
Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man) :  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel-Ami  Release date is 2010-10-13 
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<br/><br/> "Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man)" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel published in 1885. It follows Georges Duroy, a poor former soldier, as he manipulates his way through Parisian high society by seducing powerful and wealthy women. Using charm and ruthless ambition, Duroy transforms from a struggling clerk into a successful journalist and social climber. The story exposes the corruption of the press and upper classes while chronicling one man's calculated ascent to power through affairs, marriages, and betrayals in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Conduct of life -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Seduction -- Fiction Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction 
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