TY - BOOK AU - Maupassant,Guy de TI - Bel Ami (A Ladies' Man): The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 AV - PQ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Conduct of life -- Fiction KW - Social classes -- Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - Journalists -- Fiction KW - Seduction -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction KW - France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33928 ER -