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His "story" engrosses the non-critical, it holds the critical too at the first reading...That is the real test of art, and it is because of the inobtrusiveness of this workmanship, that for once the critic and the reader may join hands without awaiting the verdict of posterity' From the introduction by Ford Madox Ford

Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er gilt neben Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert und Zola als einer der großen französischen Erzähler des 19. Jahrhunderts. \"Bel Ami\" ist ein Roman von Guy de Maupassant, der 1885 erschienen ist. Er beschreibt den beruflichen und gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg des ehemaligen Unteroffiziers Georges Duroy im Paris des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Der...

For days and days, nights and nights, I had dreamed of that first kiss which was to consecrate our engagement, and I knew not on what spot I should put my lips. Not on her forehead, that was accustomed to family caresses, nor on her light hair, which mercenary hands had dressed, nor on her eyes, whose curling lashes looked like little wings, because that would have made me think of the farewell caress which closes the eyelids of some dead woma...

The story chronicles Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO non-commissioned officer) to one of the most successful men in Paris, most of which he achieves by manipulating a series of powerful, intelligent, and wealthy mistresses.The novel is set in Paris in the upper-middle class environment of the leading journalists of the newspaper La Vie Française and their friends. It tells the story of Georges Duroy, who has spent thre...

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A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard HowardOlivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and thei...

Accompanying the text are essays, letters and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, and critical assessments from his time to our own, along with a chronology and bibliography.

We fancied each other and that's that. Now it's over." Georges Duroy (the protagonist of Bel Ami, Guy de Maupassant's first novel-length work), is a cad -- a social climber who literally sleeps his way to the top. Here is a young former soldier, a man fighting for social and material position in the rat race that was Paris of 1870s. Scandal, political intrigue and sexual manipulation balance beauitiful against by de Maupassant's cruel wit -- a...

Can Belge cevirisi, Douglas Parméenin önsözü, Robert Lethbridgein sonsözüyle, Yazar ve dönem kronolojisiyle. Bel-Ami Maupassantin en önemli romanidir. Eser, 19. Yüzyil Fransasinin siyaset hayatini, iktidar iliskilerini carpici bicimde tasvir ederken, cektigi son derece gercekci fotografla bugünün dünyasini da anlatir. Bel-Ami, dünya edebiyatina öyküleriyle damga vuran Maupassantin en basarili ve ünlü romanidir. Flaubertin ögrencisi, Zolanin ca...

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But now, all at once, Servigny, by a few words, the brutality of which she felt without understanding them, awakened in her a sudden disquietude, unreasoning at first, but which grew into a tormenting apprehension. She had fled home, had escaped like a wounded animal, wounded in fact most deeply by those words which she ceaselessly repeated to get all their sense and bearing: "You know very well that there can be no question of marriage betwee...

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Little George was making hills of sand in one of the walks, he took it up with both his hands made it into a pyramid and then put a chestnut leaf on the top and his father sitting on an iron chair was looking at him with concentrated and affectionate attention and saw nobody but him in that small public garden which was full of people.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

The literary godfather of such writers as H. H. Munro ("Saki"), O Henry, and Roald Dahl, Maupassant was the master of writing short stories with a twist. Now his most fascinating tales have been collected in this sterling collection. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

The literary godfather of such writers as H. H. Munro ("Saki"), O Henry, and Roald Dahl, Maupassant was the master of writing short stories with a twist. Now his most fascinating tales have been collected in this sterling collection. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), né à Paris, est un écrivain français. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, il a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitulées contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Bécasse en 1883 ou Le Horla en 1887. Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réalist...

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), né à Paris, est un écrivain français. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, il a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitulées contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Bécasse en 1883 ou Le Horla en 1887. Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réalist...

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), né à Paris, est un écrivain français. Lié à Gustave Flaubert et à Émile Zola, il a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une Vie en 1883, Bel Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles (plus de 300), parfois intitulées contes, comme Boule de Suif en 1880, Les Contes de la Bécasse en 1883 ou Le Horla en 1887. Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réalist...