Bel Ami the London College of Music. The music and lyrics were written by Alex Loveless. John Braine, the English novelist, stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that his first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), was based on "Bel Ami", but 'the critics didn't pick it up'. Bel Ami Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled "Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel" first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry
English novel been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) "Of Human Bondage" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction