Nêne

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Nêne (1922)
by Ernest Pérochon, translated by unknown translator

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Edition: New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922.

The soul of a French peasant girl in a book that is mysteriously beautiful and poignant. The Goncourt prize winner for 1920. —The Bookman, May 1922

Yet this book was hawked about from publisher to publisher in France without finding any taker. When the author took it finally in its manuscript form to the Académie, its worth was recognized, and the Prix Goncourt of 1920 was the reward. Since then the story has met with steady success and the most distinguished praise. It has sold over a hundred thousand copies in France, and made its author, a poor school-teacher, famous. —from the review in the Literary Digest, 13 May 1922 [Full review(s) on the Discussion page. (Not all adulatory)]

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NÊNE

This novel of French peasant life won the Prix Concourt awarded by the Academy in 1920. Its success was instantaneous. Everywhere it was hailed as the finest interpretation in years of the spirit of rural France. The sale of the book ran to ninety thousand copies in a few months.

For American readers this beautiful and authentic picture of agricultural France with its simple, rugged outlines, its sectional differences, its mighty bonds of conservatism and convention is a most impressive setting for the romance, the tragedy, the maternal tenderness and passion that go to make NÊNE a work of genius.

NÊNE

Translated from the French of
ERNEST PÉROCHON

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Publishers New York

COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

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