The School for Wives, Robert, Genevieve or the Unfinished Confidence
New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Item #005276
First complete edition. 241pp., translated by Dorothy Bussy. The author explores the conflict between love, emotion, passion on the one side, and custom, tradition, morality on the other. This is one of his most profound and complex studies of the daily dramas of human living. Bound in blue cloth, tile gilt within brown decorative border, spine lettering gilt, near fine in very good unclipped dust jacket rubbed, and rubbed along the lower joint and edges.
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