The School for Wives; Robert; Genevieve, or The Unfinished Confidence

These three stories, each of which examines a troubled marriage from a different point of view, were published separately in France in 1929, 1930, and 1936 respectively. This book presents the three stories together.

“A probing dissection of an unhappy marriage - of the conflict between love, emotion, passion on the one side and custom, tradition, morality on the other - told from a different point of view...The School for Wives shows the wife’s side...Robert, the husband’s...and Genevieve throws new light on the situation from the daughter’s point of view.”— Huntting

“A literary tour de force, as a character study of truly Gallic subtlety, and as an exposition of an obscure problem having no overt act. As a triumph of literary skill, the presentation of a complicated story by the medium of a diary kept by a guiless woman is striking.”— Outlook