Original maroon cloth on boards. Translated from the French to English by R.S. Scott. Previous owner's partial bookplate. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. In A Daughter of Eve, a countess, happily married, gives in to the urging by her friends to take a lover. She falls in love with a brilliant journalist, who thereby thinks his future is secure. When his life turns sour she rescues him, and then.... Letters of Two Brides is a story of two friends in the convent who leave to continue their friendship in correspondence which lasts 17 years. One marries a commoner, whom she will help to achieve a higher station. A Daughter of Eve was first written in 1838, and Letters of Two Brides, three years later. Shows library card pocket removal. 383 pp.
Title: A Daughter of Eve/ Letters of Two Brides
Edition: Library Edition
Illustrator: Frontispiece
Location Published: Philadelphia, Gebbie Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Type: Book
Categories: Literature
Seller ID: 007449
Keywords: noisbn literature. fiction