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Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for power, Georges is not above an almost gleeful use of wealthy mistresses to achieve his ends.

La Belle Époque. Georges Duroy se retrouve à Paris sans argent en quête d'ascension sociale. Un soir, il rencontre Forestier un ancien camarade de régiment qui va lui proposer un poste de journaliste à la Vie Française. Il fait alors la connaissance de Clotilde de Marelle, la cousine de Madeleine Forestier, qui va lui faire découvrir une éducation sentimentale très libre.

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers 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.

L'histoire d'un illustre inconnu qui, à force d'opportunisme, d'arrivisme et de culot, parvient à conquérir la capitale, à se faire un nom et une place. Une fresque des mœurs parisiennes où règnent l'ambition, l'ambiguïté sexuelle des discours et la décadence amoureuse au XIXème siècle.

Guy de Maupassant is renowned as one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert, he was celebrated for his naturalistic fiction, and wrote over 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books and one volume of verse in his short but highly productive lifetime. He died in an asylum aged just 43. This collection brings together dramatisations of some of his finest works.

Un joven apuesto llega a París procedente de Argelia, donde ha pasado dos años movilizado con el ejército. Su buena fortuna le proporciona un encuentro casual con un amigo de la infancia que trabaja como periodista y le introduce en su círculo. El encanto personal de Duroy, el protagonista, comienza a abrirle puertas... Pronto verá que la lealtad no es el camino más rápido para ingresar en la aristocracia; la maquinación y la seducción lo elevarán hasta las más altas esferas de París.

Tommy J. Curry’s provocative audiobook The Man-Not is a justification for Black male studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines.

“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.”Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could, with only slight modifications of detail, be updated to the 1960s, to the Reagan-Thatcher years, or maybe to the present day. Anti-hero Georges Duroy is a down-at-heel ex-soldier of no particular talent. Good-looking but somewhat lacking in self-confidence, he discovers an ability to control and exploit women - whereupon his career in journalism...

Paris, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts: Georges Duroy, mittellos, aber ehrgeizig, gelangt durch seinen Freund Forestier an eine Stelle als Reporter bei der Zeitung "La vie française". Zwar ist Duroy völlig talentfrei, doch durch seinen Charme und seine Art de Vivre verzeichnet er schon bald große Erfolge bei den Pariser Damen - und in der Folge auch in Beruf und Gesellschaft. Voller Ironie und Scharfsinn schildert Maupassant Duroys unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg und zeichnet zugleich ein farbenprächtiges Bild des Paris seiner Zeit.

Bel Ami n el concepto de moralidad de George Duroy, no caben dudas acerca de que cualquier medio es aceptable para conseguir el fin propuesto, ya que las convenciones sociales, no están hechas para el. Acaba de llegar a París, sin un céntimo, pero sabe que gusta a las mujeres y está dispuesto a utilizarlas de la forma que haga falta en su camino al éxito.

"Gli sembrò di essere davvero distinto, camminava in modo elegante. E il suo animo si riempì di una grande fiducia in sé stesso. Certo, tutte le porte gli sarebbero state spalancate, grazie a quella sua presenza, alla smania di avere successo, alla fermezza dei suoi propositi e al suo spirito d'indipendenza.

In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Guardian columnist spends a year exploring how to pursue a rich and meaningful life, turning to the wisdom of the Stoics for insights into the deepest questions of existence.

Mme Tellier, tenancière d'une maison de passe dans une petite ville de Normandie, Fécamp, a emmené ses filles de joie à la première communion de sa nièce dans un petit village de campagne. Elles s'y font remarquer, non seulement par leurs toilettes urbaines, mais aussi par leur émotion : très sincèrement émues par la cérémonie, elles pleurent, et communiquent leur émotion à toute l'assemblée. Elles passent ainsi pour profondément dévotes !

Story of political corruption in the newspaper world of 19th-century France and the inexorable rise of Georges Duroy - 'Bel Ami' - a charming, ruthless man of little talent but plenty of ambition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amazingstories/message

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