Description
Zola, Emile; Alec Brown (Trans.). The Abbe Mouret’s Sin. London: Elek Books Ltd., 1957. pp. 312. 8vo. Black cloth boards. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear, slight offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good and housed in very good lightly rubbed exquisitely illustrated dustjacket. Overall, very good+. “In this novel Zola studies the problem of male chastity. How does the Roman Catholic priest, vowed to celibacy, learn to keep unbroken such complete denial of the flesh?”. Hardcover. (#113) $35.00