The Life of a Simple Man - Couverture rigide

Guillaumin, Emile

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874512476 ISBN 13 : 9780874512472

Editeur : University Press of New England, 1982

Synopsis

Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with little wear.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In order to """"show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper's life is like,"""" Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of """"Tiennon,"""" a French peasant born fifty years before him in 1823. A peasant himself, Guillaumin was unique in that, after a few years of schooling, he continued to work his small farm in central France to the end of his life, reserving nights for study and writing. Guillaumin felt that the French peasant had been misrepresented in contemporary literature--either romanticized as in George Sand or depicted as a dumb victim of the forces of nature as in Zola--and wanted to correct the picture. The result is a moving first-person story that can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians seeking to understand how nineteenth-century French peasants really lived.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1919. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of New England
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874512476
• ISBN 13: 9780874512472
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 195
• Éditeur: Weber Eugen Joseph
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• Personne responsable: non disponible