For Sale ■ Rare, Antique, Hard-to-Find, Era Item: Released During Wartime in 1941, 2nd Printing, 2,000 Copies, Gide's "The School for Wives" translated by Daigaku Horiguchi ※ Details are unknown due to being from an elderly person's home (based on a little information and research). ▶ Please understand and purchase as this is an old book, so there are corner scuffs and page yellowing/stains. October 5, 1941, 2nd Printing, 2,000 copies During the war André Gide "The School for Wives" translated by Daigaku Horiguchi ● Size: 18.7cm tall, 13.5cm wide, 1.8cm thick 257 pages Due to being an old book released during the war, There are some scuffs and damage on the corners of the front and back covers, and yellowing/stains inside the pages. There are fold marks on the top of a few pages, and a small triangular piece missing from the corner of one page. There is a slight tear between pages 12 and 13 at the top. It is not cut through, only at the top. The back cover has "Showa 17..." written at the bottom, and a little pencil writing at the top. Please understand and purchase this book, which is 83 years old. "The School for Wives" is a diary-style novel set from 1894, with the first part depicting happy days during the engagement period, and the second part criticizing the husband after twenty years of marriage. The husband, who initially seemed perfect, is now a personification of hypocrisy and vanity. It's not that the husband has changed, but that the wife's eyes as a woman have opened. - But how does the wife appear in the husband's eyes? "Robert" protests against this wife. André Paul Guillaume Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide, November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951) was a French novelist. Also written as André Gide (in the Showa era), and André Gide Awards Nobel Prize in Literature (1947) ■ Shipping will be done with careful packaging within the listed number of days.