Skip to content

No image available

A Woman's Life [Une Vie]

No image available

A Woman's Life [Une Vie]

by Maupassant, Guy De

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Near Fine with no dust jacket
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Item Price
$13.50
Or just $12.15 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
$6.00 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 7 to 14 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

New York & London: The Nonesuch Press/Heritage Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. [NY: Heritage Press] by arrangement with The Nonesuch Press, London, 1942. 10 x 7 in. 216pp. 16 color illustrations by Edy Legrand. Teal-blue cloth back & decorated boards, near fine condition. In very good card slipcase (streak stain). Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie. Introduction by Edmond Jaloux. Sandglass booklet laid in. ; 16 color illustrations; 10 x 7 inches; 216 pages .

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.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Dale A. Sorenson US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
6186
Title
A Woman's Life [Une Vie]
Author
Maupassant, Guy De
Illustrator
Edy Legrand
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Publisher
The Nonesuch Press/Heritage Press
Place of Publication
New York & London
Date Published
1942
Keywords
French Literature, Nonesuch Press, Fiction

Terms of Sale

Dale A. Sorenson

30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

About the Seller

Dale A. Sorenson

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland

About Dale A. Sorenson

Used and rare books of quality in all subjects.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...

This Book’s Categories

tracking-