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Afloat : (Sur l'eau) / Guy de Maupassant ; with illustrations by Riou ; translated by Laura Ensor.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1889 Maupassant
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893.
- Standardized Title:
- Sur l'eau
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Riveria (France)--Description and travel.
- Riveria (France).
- Genre:
- Travel literature.
- Quarter bindings (Binding).
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons, 1889.
- Summary:
- "Afloat is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream, polemic, and documentation in a wholly original manner. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences', and thoughts on life, love, art, nature, and society all find a place in Maupassant's pages, which are, in conception and in effect, so many reflections of the fluid sea on which he finds himself - at once happily and precariously - afloat."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Quarter bound with green cloth and stamped leather.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on t.p.: "Received Mar 8 1889, The Athenaeum."
- OCLC:
- 3316235
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