Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Fanny Legrand is one of the great female characters in literature. Nothing could be more shocking to Jean Gaussin, a serious young student from the provinces, than the moral swamp his mistress has been living in before they met. Sculptor's model, poet's muse, Fanny Legrand has seen and done it all in the twenty years since her first lover, Caoudal, cast in bronze the girl from the Paris gutter and named her Sappho. But revulsion is no match for lust; ...
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Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Fanny Legrand is one of the great female characters in literature. Nothing could be more shocking to Jean Gaussin, a serious young student from the provinces, than the moral swamp his mistress has been living in before they met. Sculptor's model, poet's muse, Fanny Legrand has seen and done it all in the twenty years since her first lover, Caoudal, cast in bronze the girl from the Paris gutter and named her Sappho. But revulsion is no match for lust; and little by little, despite continual outbreaks of rage and jealousy, Jean is able to live with Fanny's disgraceful past, to find a certain pleasure in the degraded domesticity of their life together and even to feel a degree of pride in his new connections with famous men. The arrival on the scene of a marriageable young girl seems to offer Jean the escape route he needs: but he cannot bring himself to deal his ageing mistress a potentially fatal blow. Alphonse Daudet's waspishly good-humoured but chilling novel takes Jean on a journey he could never have foreseen.
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Add this copy of Sappho (Dedalus European Classics) to cart. $3.00, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Dedalus Limited.
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Add this copy of Sappho, (the Modern Library of the World's Best Books) to cart. $9.58, very good condition, Sold by Half Price Books Inc rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1950 by Modern Library.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 242 pp. (no date) The spine is faded from being shelved in the sunlight; the book is very slightly cocked. The binding is tight, and the text is clean. Translated from the French.
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Add this copy of Sappho to cart. $13.45, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1959 by Bestseller Library.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book Signed by Majeska (Henriette Stern) on the limitation page. Limited edition. #298/750. Hardbound, no dust jacket. No slipcase. Previous owner's signature on front free end page. Minor wear to boards. Some age toning to spine edge, otherwise very good.
