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Article: paperback choice. (book review)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2001
- Author:
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Byline: SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE
BEL-AMI by Guy de Maupassant (Oxford [pound]7.99) IF you thought Evelyn Waugh's Scoop was the finest comic satire ever written on newspaper ethics and manners, think again.
Maupassant's Bel-Ami, reissued by Oxford World Classics (OUP, [pound]7.99), deserves a more exalted place in the canon. It is the story of young, blue-eyed, blond Duroy's climb up the social and political ladder by means of the women he seduces. At the start of the story, he has just returned to Paris from the army in north ...