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Trois Contes: Un Coeur Simple, La Légender de Saint Julien L'Hospitalier, Hérodias
by Flaubert Gustave
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1877. Second Edition. Softcover. Fair Condition. Original wraps worn, chipped and dampstained. Light staining to first few pages, light foxing, but clean and unmarked internally otherwise. Scarce early printing of one of Flaubert's most enduring works. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 045161.
Synopsis
.I Pendant un demi-siecle, les bourgeoises de Pont-l'Eveque envierent a Madame Aubain sa servante Felicite. Pour cent francs par an, elle faisait la cuisine et le menage, cousait, lavait, repassait, savait brider un cheval, engraisser les volailles, battre le beurre, et resta fidele a sa maitresse qui n'etait pas cependant une personne agreable. Elle avait epouse un beau garcon sans fortune, mort au commencement de 1809, en lui laissant deux enfants tres jeunes avec une quantite de dettes. Alors, elle vendit ses immeubles, sauf la ferme de Toucques et la ferme de Geffosses dont les rentes montaient a cinq mille francs tout au plus, et elle quitta sa maison de Saint-Melaine pour en habiter une autre moins dispendieuse ayant appartenu a ses ancetres et placee derriere les Halles. Cette maison, revetue d'ardoises, se trouvait entre un passage et une ruelle aboutissant a la riviere. Elle avait interieurement des differences de niveau qui faisaient trebucher. Un vestibule etroit separait la cuisine de la salle ou Madame Aubain se tenait tout le long du jour, assise pres de la croisee dans un fauteuil de paille. Contre le lambris peint en blanc, s'alignaient huit chaises d'acajou. Un vieux piano supportait sous un barometre un tas pyramidal de boites et de cartons, Deux bergeres de tapisserie flanquaient la cheminee en marbre jaune et de style Louis XV. La pendule, au milieu, representait un temple de Vesta; et tout l'appartement sentait un peu le moisi, car le plancher etait plus bas que le jardin.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045161
- Title
- Trois Contes: Un Coeur Simple, La Légender de Saint Julien L'Hospitalier, Hérodias
- Author
- Flaubert Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- G. Charpentier
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Literature & Literary; NOISBN
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- G
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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