Le supplice de Phèdre : roman by Henri Deberly

"Le supplice de Phèdre" by Henri Deberly is a novel published in 1926. Hélène Soré finds herself trapped in a disturbing psychological torment. Married to an older sea captain and serving as stepmother to his adolescent son Marc, she struggles with her strict role as educator. Slowly, forbidden desires begin to awaken within her—feelings that horrify her and threaten to destroy everything. This Prix Goncourt winner explores a woman's internal battle against emotions she can neither accept nor escape. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Deberly, Henri, 1882-1947
Title Le supplice de Phèdre : roman
Original Publication France: Gallimard, 1926.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Supplice_de_Ph%C3%A8dre
Credits Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French fiction -- 20th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 71093
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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