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by Guy de Maupassant, Roger Pearson

Julian Meynell's Books rated it

9 years ago

text Maupassant's Une Vie

This is the first thing that I have read by Maupassant and I found it very enjoyable. It is very much a 19th century French novel, which I mean as a great complement. It focuses on the life of a woman in the French gentry and starts at the moment she leaves the convent in which she has been school...

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text A Life by Guy de Maupassant

bookshelves: radio-4, fradio, autumn-2012, translation, play-dramatisation, france, families, published-1883 Read from October 30 to November 03, 2012 1/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent edu...

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Edward rated it

12 years ago

text A Life: The Humble Truth

IntroductionNote on the TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Guy de Maupassant--A LifeExplanatory Notes

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Edward rated it

12 years ago

text A Life: The Humble Truth

IntroductionNote on the TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Guy de Maupassant--A LifeExplanatory Notes

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Bettie's Books rated it

12 years ago

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1/5 Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance.Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.#2 Jeanne de Lamare has married a small-minded local landowner and begins to ...

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