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Une Vie

A Life (Une Vie)

by Guy de Maupassant

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About Une Vie

Maupassant's first novel (1883) — the story of Jeanne de Lamare, a young aristocratic woman in Normandy who marries in hope and spends the next forty years watching her illusions collapse through her husband's infidelities, her son's extravagance, and the general indifference of the world. The most sustained and melancholy portrait of a woman's entire life in nineteenth-century French fiction.

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