Project Gutenberg 2023-03-24 Public domain in the USA. 104 Maupassant, Guy de 1850 1893 De Maupassant, Guy Nuormaa, Arvi 1895 1956 Bel-Ami. Finnish Kaunis ystävä $aFinland :$bKust.Oy Tammi, $c1955. Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen "Kaunis ystävä" by Guy de Maupassant is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story primarily revolves around the main character, Georges Duroy, a former non-commissioned officer who struggles with poverty in Paris. The novel explores themes of ambition, seduction, and social climbing as Duroy navigates the complexities of desire and the pursuit of wealth. At the start of the novel, we meet Georges Duroy as he leaves a restaurant with mere pocket change, contemplating his financial situation as summer heat weighs heavily on the city of Paris. Duroy's observations reveal his mix of ambition and desperation as he fantasizes about improving his circumstances, which leads him to think of the alluring women he encounters on his way. When he unexpectedly reunites with an old army companion, Forestier, their conversation transitions from casual pleasantries to a proposal that hints at a new opportunity in the world of journalism, thereby offering Duroy a potential escape from his monotonous life. The opening sets a tone of contrast between Duroy's current struggles and the sophisticated, vibrant world he aspires to enter. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20221125044742maupassant 1955 FI Reading ease score: 43.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Conduct of life -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Seduction -- Fiction Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Novels Category: French Literature 817555 2025-07-28T04:06:47.348188 text/html 817370 817377 2024-12-29T04:59:19.151167 2023-09-30T06:34:26.116231 text/html text/html 370042 2025-07-28T04:06:58.634170 application/epub+zip 384088 2025-07-28T04:06:50.686169 application/epub+zip 370520 2025-07-28T04:06:49.256185 application/epub+zip 675137 2025-07-28T04:07:04.401108 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 636869 2025-07-28T04:06:57.762127 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 732550 2025-07-28T04:06:46.699215 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 732297 2023-03-24T11:24:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19652 2025-07-28T04:07:04.554096 application/rdf+xml 14408 2025-07-28T04:06:49.774159 image/jpeg 3676 2025-07-28T04:06:49.518181 image/jpeg 272709 2023-03-24T11:24:41 application/octet-stream application/zip 367834 2025-07-28T04:06:47.412223 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia fr.wikipedia