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Bel Ami
by Guy De Maupassant
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0141196793
- ISBN 13
- 9780141196794
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Books (Australia), Melbourne, 2012. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. First Movie Tie-in edition. Size: Small Octavo. 394 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Georges Duroy, is poor, young, attractive and very ambitious. Offered a job as a journalist in Paris, he soon learns that to make his way in the world he needs to use more than his brains. So he becomes an arch-seducer and social climber, using his looks and charm to bewitch a series of wealthy, influential society beauties and become one of the most successful men of the glittering 'beau monde' of 1890s Paris. His female admirers know him as 'Bel-Ami'- to their husbands, he is the enemy. This erotically charged tale of ambition, power and seduction is a dazzling portrayal of a world where sex is power, and celebrity is an obsession. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Romance; France; 19th century; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780141196794. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9342. . 9780141196794
Synopsis
Bel Ami, published in 1885, is French author Guy de Maupassant's second novel. It is the story of journalist Georges Duroy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9342
- Title
- Bel Ami
- Author
- Guy De Maupassant
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0141196793
- ISBN 13
- 9780141196794
- Publisher
- Penguin Books (Australia)
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- BZDB137 france, guy de maupassant, 19th century, fiction, Fiction; Romance; France; 19th century; EAN: 9780141196794 Guy De Maupassant Bel Ami
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