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...
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...
IntroductionNote on the TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Guy de Maupassant--A LifeExplanatory Notes
IntroductionNote on the TranslationSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Guy de Maupassant--A LifeExplanatory Notes
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 ...
Log in with Facebook 
