Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Author: first_name: Guy de
last_name: Maupassant
Language: English
Year: 1903

“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.”<br><br>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 se