I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz
I Who Have Never Known Men is a dystopian novel by Belgian author Jacqueline Harpman, first published in French by Stock, Paris, in 1995. Thirty-nine women and a girl escape an underground cage into an empty world. Ros Schwartz's translation appeared in 1997, titled Mistress of Silence in the UK.
- Editions tracked
- 3
- First edition
- Stock, 1995
- First published
- Stock, Paris, 1995
- First UK edition
- Harvill, 1997
The first edition of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman was published in Paris by Stock in 1995. We track 3 editions.
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- Editions recorded
- 16 on Open Library, 9 in English
- Wikipedia
- Articles in 6 languages
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Who published the first edition of I Who Have Never Known Men?
The first edition of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz was published in Paris by Stock in 1995.
How many editions of I Who Have Never Known Men are there?
We track 3 editions of I Who Have Never Known Men, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- I Who Have Never Known Men, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Female Power Versus Toxic Masculinity, Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org)
- Jacqueline Harpman, Transit Books (transitbooks.org)
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