Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
by LibriVox · 25 episodes
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“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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14 min
14 - Jealousy
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25 min
02 - Madame Forestier
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20 min
03 - First Attempts
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17 min
04 - Duroy Learns Something
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16 min
05 - The First Intrigue, part one
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16 min
06 - The First Intrigue, part two
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14 min
07 - The First Intrigue, part three
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16 min
08 - A Step Upward, part one
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21 min
09 - A Step Upward, part two
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26 min
10 - A Duel with an End
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37 min
11 - Death and a Proposal
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18 min
12 - Marriage, part one
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19 min
13 - Marriage, part two
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28 min
01 - Poverty
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15 min
15 - Mme Walter Takes a Hand, part one
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17 min
16 - Mme Walter Takes a Hand, part two
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22 min
17 - A Meeting and the Result
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22 min
18 - Madame Marelle, part one
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14 min
19 - Madame Marelle, part two
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24 min
20 - The Will