Bel-ami by Guy Maupassant Douglas Parmee (Translator)

Bel-ami by Guy Maupassant Douglas Parmee (Translator)Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel Ami is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parme in Penguin Classics. Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he

and let justice go undone

she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life

survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart

It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute

jewel of the solar dynasty

This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world

and positive thinking—and their effects on the body

who seems to know what’s going on

Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned

Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecdotes and practical exercises help us to arrive at greater self-understanding and peacefulness

for which he is unapologetic: "If this is a nanny state

and the duties of women to others and to themselves