Books with author G Maupassant

Excerpt from The Complete Works of Guy De Maupassant: The Window and Short Stories These are characteristic traits in Maupassant, and while he shares some of them with other writers of the school, in no one of the more prominent are they so highly developed as in him. His great mas ter, the man who made Maupassant the literary art ist he is - Gustave Flaubert - is not invariably de pressing; Emile Zola, foul, bestial and materialistic though he customarily is, rises at times to cleaner heights and stirs other than base thoughts; Alphonse Daudet, with his infinite sadness, scarcely ever fails to let a beam of his Provence sunshine break through the shadow; but Maupassant is infiexibly and unchangingly the abhorrer of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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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.