MAUPASSANT, Henri René Albert Guy de.
A Woman's Life.
The Limited Editions Club Edition of Guy de Maupassant's A Woman's Life
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952.
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Item Number: RRB-148551
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The Limited Editions Club limited edition of Guy de Maupassant's first full-length novel. Royal octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated with hand-colored gravures. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 511. In fine condition. Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie. Introduction by Edmond Jones. Illustrated by Edy Legrand.
Nineteenth century French author Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant is remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements. A Woman’s Life (Une Vie, 1883) is a realist novel that traces the emotional and social decline of Jeanne, a young aristocratic woman whose idealistic expectations of love and happiness are gradually eroded by betrayal, disillusionment, and the constraints of bourgeois society. Through its restrained narrative style and focus on the minutiae of domestic life, the novel offers a critique of the romantic illusions imposed on women and the limited agency afforded to them within 19th-century French society.
A Woman's Life.
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