by Guy de Maupassant · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253004240
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«Une vie» (L'humble vérité) is the novel by Guy de Maupassant published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (247 pages, in French).
Jeanne, the only and pampered daughter of the Baron and Baroness Le Penthuis des Vauds, had everything to be happy; her marriage to Julien de Lamare, a coarse and miserly man, leads her to a life of disillusionment. Maupassant's first novel, it portrays with realism the customs of rural Normandy in the nineteenth century.
Volume 478 of the Classiques collection, edited by Alain Buisine. The novel was originally published in 1883.
Of interest to readers of French classics and students of nineteenth-century literature who want to read the work in its original language.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
