num_pages: 192
description: Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of leters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved and her need to have a life and work of her own.
language: English
title: The Vagabond
titlecomplete: The Vagabond (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts)
characters: Maxime Dufferein-Chautel, Renée Néré
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Womens, Romance, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3435
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd