0002712199 1994 2nd Printing HarperCollins, Publishers (London, England) Harvill Trade Paperback;

0002712199 1994 2nd Printing HarperCollins, Publishers (London, England) Harvill Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover few minor surface scratches w/3 minimal creases/edge + corner wear + curling; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 334 pages; translated from French by Grace Frick (in collaboration w/author); 3 parts/21 chapters; author's note; author biography; color front cover painting is "The Rider" by Ter Borch (1630); "a European writer of the 1st rank...Her treatment is deliberate: a weighted, lucid build-up of detail + sensation designed to transmit intellectual as well as physical tension--terror is not too strong a term--in a century which leapt the abyss between what we call 'medieval' + 'modern' systems of thinking"--Gay Firth, The Times; "for her the growth of an intelligence at a time of extreme religious ferment is of greater interest than swordplay"--Paul Bailey; good plus to very good (w/only few superficial cover flaws) copy of 15-year-old out-of-print British paperback.