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Bel-AmiOn the coverLe boulevard des Capucines, le soir, devant le Café Napolitain, Jean Béraud, c. 1880
Bel-Ami
A penniless, handsome ex-soldier claws his way to the top of Paris society and journalism through seduction, betrayal, and sheer nerve, in Maupassant’s brilliant, cynical study of ambition without scruple.
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A dazzling, wicked page-turner about a charming scoundrel who fails his way upward, as sharp about media and money now as it was then. Maupassant’s most entertaining novel.
SettingParis, 1880s
The Paris of the 1880s, a world of newspapers, boulevards, and salons where reputation and influence were bought, sold, and seduced into being.