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Tracklist A1 A Candle's Fire Accordion
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' His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy christened ' Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris It is a novel about money sex & power set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own & is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behaviour & its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...