Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant

“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 takes off, fuel...

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2. 02 - Madame Forestier

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3. 03 - First Attempts

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4. 04 - Duroy Learns Something

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5. 05 - The First Intrigue, part one

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6. 06 - The First Intrigue, part two

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7. 07 - The First Intrigue, part three

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8. 08 - A Step Upward, part one

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9. 09 - A Step Upward, part two

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10. 10 - A Duel with an End

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15. 15 - Mme Walter Takes a Hand, part one

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