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A Woman's Life

Guy de Maupassant

Book Overview: 

Having spent her girlhood at a convent getting a good education, Jeanne has just returned home and is a happy young woman full of hope and excitement, and eager to experience life and love!
But is she ready?
The facts of life were not a part of the convent’s curriculum and dear Mother and Father are unable to broach sensitive topics, so Jeanne must learn life’s lessons the hard way. From the shock and dismay of the wedding night, to childbirth, to infidelity, to religion, there is a lot of learning to be done.

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Community Reviews

Sometimes it is as bitter to see an illusion destroyed as to witness the death of a friend.

On pleure parfois les illusions avec autant de tristesse que les morts.

A raw and saddening portrayal of the overwhelmingly unhappy life of a woman.

این اولین کتابی که از موپاسان می‌خونم همیشه دلم می‌خواست از این نویسنده کتابی بخونم و اما چه کتاب خوبی برای شروع از آثار این نویسنده خوندم بشدت قشنگ بود.

این کتاب درباره‌ی دختری به نام ژانت که به تازه گی از صومعه خارج شده و برای ادامه‌ی زندکی نزد خانواده‌اش برگشته.
از همون ابتدا متوجه میشیم ژانت روح پ

- Excuse me?

- Madame. 'Ow may I 'elp you?

- I'm looking for a book. Une vie.

- Envie, madame?

- By Maupassant.

- Mont Passant?

- Here, let me write it down.

- Ah! Une vie, de Maupassant.

- Yeah, that's what I said.

- Tout à fait, madame, tout à fait. Yes, we 'ave this book.

- Could you tell me a bit about it

1) L'HISTOIRE :
Une Vie, c'est l'histoire de Jeanne, jeune femme fraichement sortie du couvent, sur le point d'emménager avec ses parents dans le domaine qui lui reviendra. Elle y rencontre bientôt le vicomte Julien de Lamare, qu'elle épouse. C'est le compte-rendu scrupuleux d'une faillite.

2) MON AVI

Compared to Bel-Ami, this was a slower-paced read, but the writing is nonetheless beautiful. I was captivated by Maupassant's sensitivities in his descriptive skills in general.

It is a carefully crafted story of an aristocratic lady with a sheltered bring-up who has lived through shattered dreams a

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