About this title: "Afloat, "originally published as "Sur l'eau "in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in a wholly original style. Humorous and troubling stories, unreliable confessions, stray reminiscences, and thoughts on life, love, art, nature, and society all find a place in Maupassant's pages, which are, in conception and in effect, so many reflections of the fluid sea on which he ...
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Description: Good. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 2008-04-22
ISBN-13:9781590172599ISBN:1590172590
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781590172599. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, London
Date Published: 1889
Description: Riou. Fair. Octavo 5" x 7.5" 256 pp. Hardcover, bound in leather backed cloth. The leather along the spine is brittle and flaking; marginal tanning to the text-block. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781120140364ISBN:1120140366
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00258 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781120235305ISBN:1120235308
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 6 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00258 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books Classics
Date Published: 02/05/2008
ISBN-13:9781590172599ISBN:1590172590
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781590172599ISBN:1590172590
Description: New. "Afloat, "originally published as "Sur l'eau "in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de... read more
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