Sign-In
Cart
Gerfuat
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781434431622
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Apr 11 2025
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Set amid the elegance and hypocrisy of 19th-century French society, Gerfaut follows the romantic and moral entanglements of a refined but enigmatic hero. As he becomes involved with a married woman and navigates the consequences of his affections, he is drawn into duels-both literal and emotional-that test his honor and resilience. With a keen eye for character and social nuance, this novel examines the cost of love in a world ruled by appearances and rigid codes.
Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette (1804-1850) was a French writer. William Makepeace Thackeray called de Bernard's characters men and women of genteel society--rascals enough, but living in no state of convulsive crimes; and we follow him in his lively, malicious account of their manners, without risk of lighting upon any such horrors as Balzac or Dumas has provided for us.
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback