Une Vie

by Guy de Maupassant · 1883

A sheltered young woman's romantic hopes for marriage curdle into disappointment across a long life. Maupassant's tender, bleak first novel.

Books mentioned in Une Vie (2)

• Corinne by Germaine de Staël: “she still remained poetical, having always retained the impression of "Corinne," which she had read a”
• Méditations poétiques by Alphonse de Lamartine: “she passed hours reading "Corinne" or Lamartine's "Meditations."”