Pierre and Jean (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781617207266)

Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. In his anguish, most notably shown during family meals, he tortures her with allusions to the past that he has now uncovered

Author: Guy de Maupassant
ISBN-10: 1617207268
ISBN-13: 9781617207266
Publisher: SMK Books
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2012
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d