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Like death
- Title
- Like death / Guy De Maupassant ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.
- Author
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3234 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Howard, Richard, 1929-2022
- Description
- xi, 218 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Anne, the comtesse de Guilleroy, is a youthful forty, the wife of a busy politician. The painter and the comtesse have been lovers for many years. Anne's daughter, Annette--the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth--has finished her schooling and is returning to Paris. Her parents are putting together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be--until the painter and comtesse are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann's Way. Richard Howard's new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- Fort comme la mort. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Fort comme la mort.
- Subject
- Families > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3234
- ISBN
- 9781681370323 (paperback)
- 1681370328 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2016026783
- OCLC
- 948088541
- Author
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, author.
- Title
- Like death / Guy De Maupassant ; translated from the French by Richard Howard.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books ClassicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Howard, Richard, 1929-2022, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893, author. Like death New York : New York Review Books, [2017] 9781681370330 (DLC) 2016026798
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3234