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 Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! How are you doing? Today I'm happy to share with you another book review and this time I'll be reviewing a famous classic: Bel- Ami, a novel by Guy de Maupassant.  Some of you might remember that I hold this French writer in high esteem.  Considered the father of the modern short story, Guy de Maupassant is possibly best known for his shorter prose works (he wrote about 300 short stories and is considered a master of the form). However, Maupassant also wrote three novels. I personally enjoyed both his stories and novels. If you remember, I devoted a post to his novel Mont-Oriol.  I've read an awful lot of Maupassant  (several collections of his short stories and the above mentioned novel) and I was always left wanting more. Classics do tend to make my soul sing, but some authors are still dearer to me than others and that is the case with Maupassant. Seeing that I've always enjoyed his writing immensely, I was looking forward to