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Bel Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Popular Library, USA, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. Fair. Paperback. 255 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Popular Library, USA, 1963. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Spine has severe lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are considerably tanned. Small tear at base of spine. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 17010181..
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
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17010181
- Title
- Bel Ami
- Author
- Guy de Maupassant
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Popular Library
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Bel Ami
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Fiction; Literature & Literary;
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About the Seller
Manyhills Books
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Traralgon, Victoria
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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