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A Woman's Life
by De Maupassant, Guy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Published
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London, U.S.A.: Nonesuch Press, 1942 London, U.S.A.: Nonesuch Press, 1942 216 pp. Slipcased. Translated from the French by Majorie Laurie, with an introduction by Edmond Jaloux. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Green and cream boards with a green spine are "VG" . Tan slipcase is lightly bumped at spine, otherwise undamaged. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover Cased. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Illus. by LeGrand, Edy.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Published. Illus. by LeGrand, Edy.
Synopsis
Jeanne, ayant fini ses malles, s'approcha de la fenetre, mais la pluie ne cessait pas. L'averse, toute la nuit, avait sonne contre les carreaux et les toits. Le ciel bas et charge d'eau semblait creve, se vidant sur la terre, la delayant en bouillie, la fondant comme du sucre. Des rafales passaient pleines d'une chaleur lourde. Le ronflement des ruisseaux debordes emplissait les rues desertes ou les maisons, comme des eponges, buvaient l'humidite qui penetrait au-dedans et faisait suer les murs de la cave au grenier. Jeanne, sortie la veille du couvent, libre enfin pour toujours, prete a saisir tous les bonheurs de la vie dont elle revait depuis si longtemps, craignait que son pere hesitat a partir si le temps ne s'eclaircissait pas, et pour la centieme fois depuis le matin elle interrogeait l'horizon. Puis elle s'apercut qu'elle avait oublie de mettre son calendrier dans son sac de voyage. Elle cueillit sur le mur le petit carton divise par mois, et portant au milieu d'un dessin la date de l'annee courante 1819 en chiffres d'or. Puis elle biffa a coups de crayon les quatre premieres colonnes, rayant chaque nom de saint jusqu'au 2 mai, jour de sa sortie du couvent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300080
- Title
- A Woman's Life
- Author
- De Maupassant, Guy
- Illustrator
- LeGrand, Edy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Published
- Publisher
- Nonesuch Press
- Place of Publication
- London, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Literature;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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