Guy de Maupassant&s classic tale of passion in late-18th century Paris gets adapted for the big screen in this scintillating erotic drama starring TWILIGHT&s Robert Pattinson as a destitute young soldier who plots to gain power by seducing the lonely wives of the city&s most influential men Christina Ricci Uma Thurman Kristin Scott Thomas & Colm Meaney co-star ...

Winner of the Orange Prize & the PENFaulkner Award for Fiction The poignant
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- novel from the author

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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 ...

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Long ago the evil God Torak fought a war to obtain an object of immense power
- the Orb of Aldur But Torak was defeated & the Orb
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Legends tell how Belgarath the sorcerer & his daughter Polgara defeated the evil God Torak imprisoning him in an endless sleep But now a priest of Torak is racing to his God with the Orb of Aldur & is racing to reawaken him Belgarath & Polgara are on his trail With them is Garion a simple farm boy only months before & with each league the group travel the power of sorcery is growing in Garon ...

In the Hall of the Rivan King Garion & his companions now have the Orb of Aldur carried by an innocent young boy & must return it to its rightful home on the pommel of the sword in the Great Hall on the island of Riva As they journey across the lands Murgo soldiers & Grolim sorcerers try to stop them But Garion's true adversary the evil God Torak
- is waking up in his dark tomb
- ready for the final conflict

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