Buy this book on-line FORTON, JEAN: : a wolf adventuringLONDON.CAPE,1960. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial upper panel and spine/ backstrip by Marina Hoffer; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges.Top front and top rear corners lightly rubbed with minimal loss,rear bottom corner small closed tear,head of spine/backstrip lightly bumped with reciprocal creasing.Dw/dj water-stained internally - boards unaffected though - to top edges lightly affecting both front+ rear inner flaps and rear panel which is also slightly grubbed.Described hard but fairly - not as bad as sounds! Top edge coloured and lightly faded,fore-edge generally clean but with some minimal spotting; contents bright,tight and unfoxed.Unblemished,red speckled paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters on blue background and white publishers colophon to spine/ backstrip and plain white endpapers - feps with light off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.The ffe is diagonally clipped to top corner and there is an ink price to top corner of half-title page.Translated from the French by David Hughes.
At the beginning of Jean Forton's novel is a quotation from La Fontaine about a lamb that paused to drink just when a hungry wolf turned up,just adventuring.
The wolf it is who tells the story,a man with enough to live on and only one interest in life - women.Apart from his pursuit of sexual pleasure,his only activity is to keep a journal about it.By chance he caught sight of an ideal he had thought unattainable - Isabelle Saulrier, a lonely and innocent girl of sixteen.This
is his own story of his patient,single-minded campaign to seduce her,and of its consequences.Disturbingly honest about his
behaviour and feelings,the seducer has recorded an unforgettable new version of old truths about the nature of sexual behaviour.
Jean Forton,his creator,one of the outstanding of the younger French novelists,brings to this story of emotional obsession a directness and unflinching clarity characteristically French and recognisably his own.
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