Beautiful Friend (Color Illustration Edition)

Author: (French) Guy de Maupassant
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The Beloved Friend is one of the six long novels in Guy de Maupassant's life, achieving the highest level of ideological and artistic accomplishment. Through the depiction of the short-term meteoric rise of a shameless scoundrel, Duroy, the novel exposes the dark of the French Third Republic's press, profoundly revealing the complex political, economic phenomena and colonial war policies of the French Third Republic. It is considered a historical painting of French society in the late 19th century. The novel portrays a typical ambitious and adventurous figure, pioneering the "Beloved Friend" series in French literature. Engels once paid tribute to Maupassant by bowing his hat for this novel.