01971cam a22003853u 4500 33928 UtSlPG 20260610133755.0 m cr n 260607r2010||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man) : The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2010 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel-Ami Release date is 2010-10-13 Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) Original publication data not identified 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33928 74774 74774