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Pierre and Jean
by De Maupassant, Guy
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- Condition
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About This Item
New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Half-Leather. Good. Half leather with green cloth. Color illustrated half title. 339 pp. Black and white illustrations Ernest Duez and Albert Lynch. A novel of the psycho-realist genre, exploring the psychological impact of the discovery of a love affair by the mother of two grown sons. GOOD condition. Heavy scuffing to the leather along the spine, hinges and corners. Minor uneven fading and scuffing to the cloth. Light soiling and a few tiny stains. Previous owner's circular private library stamp on the inside cover. Text block rather shaken and weak, but intact.
Synopsis
Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At his parents’ separation he stayed with his mother, who was a friend of Flaubert. As a young man he was lively and athletic, but the first symptoms of syphilis appeared in the late 1870s. By this time Maupassant had become Flaubert’s pupil in the art of prose. On the publication of the first short story to which he put his name, ‘Boule de suif’, he left his job in the civil service and his temporary alliance with the disciples of Zola at Médan, and devoted his energy to professional writing. In the next eleven years he published dozens of articles, nearly three hundred stories and six novels, the best known of which are A Woman’s Life , Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean . He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Pierre and Jean
- Author
- De Maupassant, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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