A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant, Edy Legrand art, Nonesuch Heritage Press 1942, HC. This vintage classic book is in very good condition with tight binding and beautiful art illustrations by Edy Legrand. Look at the sample photos above. There is the name in pen on the inside cover of Dori Steider. I purchased this book in Albuquerque and believe this would be the award-winning artist Doris Steider (1924-2010), who lived in Albuquerque. https://prabook.com/web/doris.steider/769365 The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassant's full-length novels, A Woman's Life is the story of the unfortunate Jeanne, a Norman gentlewoman. Avarice and lechery, cruelty and greed, conspire against Jeanne wherever she goes. Maupassant exposes the evil around Jeanne with characteristic detachment and precision, yet his pessimism is, as always, qualified by passages of great lyric beauty, and by the touching sympathy and tenderness with which he portrays his heroine.