Strong as Death

Strong As Death is a novel by French author Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant. The story revolves around the passionate and tumultuous love affair between a young artist named Olivier Bertin and a beautiful married woman, Madame Regina Hett�����ma. Despite the societal constraints and moral boundaries of their time, the two lovers embark on a passionate and intense relationship that threatens to destroy everything around them.As their love deepens, Olivier becomes increasingly obsessed with Madame Regina, neglecting his art and his other relationships in the process. Meanwhile, Regina struggles to reconcile her love for Olivier with her duty to her husband and her social status.The novel explores themes of love, passion, and the destructive power of desire. De Maupassant's vivid descriptions of the characters and their surroundings create a vivid and immersive world that draws the reader in and keeps them captivated until the very end.Overall, Strong As Death is a powerful and evocative novel that delves into the complexities of human emotion and the consequences of following one's heart at any cost.The attraction that impelled him toward this girl a little resembled those obscure yet innocent desires that go to make up part of all the ceaseless and unappeasable vibrations of human nerves. His eye of the artist, as well as that of the man, was captivated by her freshness, by that springing of beautiful clear life, by that essence of youth that glowed in her; and his heart, full of memories of his long intimacy with the Countess, finding in the extraordinary resemblance of Annette to her mother a reawakening of old feelings, of emotions sleeping since the beginning of his love, had been startled perhaps by the sensation of an awakening. An awakening? Yes. Was it that?This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.