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Bel-Ami follows the brilliant rise of Georges Duroy, a young man whose charm, ambition, and cunning allow him to climb the highest circles of Parisian society. Guy de Maupassant paints a sharp portrait of journalism, politics, and the glittering salons of the late nineteenth century, where seduction and manipulation become paths to power. Duroy's journey is marked by social conquest, romance, and ruthless calculation. Through this compelling antihero, Maupassant exposes the hypocrisies of the bourgeois world and the fragile nature of ambition. The women who surround Duroy — Madeleine Forestier, Clotilde de Marelle, Madame Walter — shape his ascent, revealing the complex interplay of desire, influence, and moral compromise. A masterpiece of literary realism, Bel-Ami remains a vivid exploration of ambition, vanity, and the price of success. It is a novel as modern today as when it was first published, incisive, elegant, and profoundly human.

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