Life

Life
Authors
de Maupassant, Guy & Pearson, Roger
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Tags
classics
ISBN
9780140441611
Date
1883-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.40 MB
Lang
en
Downloaded: 21 times

The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassant's full-length novels, A Woman's Life is the story of the unfortunate Jeanne, a Norman gentlewoman. Avarice and lechery, cruelty and greed, conspire against Jeanne wherever she goes.

Maupassant exposes the evil around Jeanne with characteristic detachment and precision, yet his pessimism is, as always, qualified by passages of great lyric beauty, and by the touching sympathy and tenderness with which he portrays his heroine.