The Life of a Simple Man by Guillaumin, Emile

The Life of a Simple Man

In order to "show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper's life...
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Author: Emile Guillaumin
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Language: English
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The Life of a Simple Man by Guillaumin, Emile

The Life of a Simple Man

BD$24.03

The Life of a Simple Man

BD$24.03
Author: Emile Guillaumin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In order to "show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper's life is like," Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of "Tiennon," a French peasant born fifty years before him in 1823. A peasant himself, Guillaumin was unique in that, after a few years of schooling, he continued to work his small farm in central France to the end of his life, reserving nights for study and writing. Guillaumin felt that the French peasant had been misrepresented in contemporary literature--either romanticized as in George Sand or depicted as a dumb victim of the forces of nature as in Zola--and wanted to correct the picture. The result is a moving first-person story that can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians seeking to understand how nineteenth-century French peasants really lived.

Author: Emile Guillaumin
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 03/01/1982
Pages: 231
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.38w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780874512465

About the Author
EUGEN WEBER is Professor of History and Dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. He has written many books on France, including Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914.


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