Love in the Afternoon (Original Title: Ariane) (Complete and Unabridged) (Signet 1404)

New York: Signet, 1957. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x1x5. Third printing. 1/2 inch closed tear along spine, covers lightly soiled, pages toned. 1957 Mass Market Paperback. 125 pp. Now an Allied Artists movie starring Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, produced and directed by Billy Wilder. This daringly provocative novel about love caused a sensation when it was first published because of its outspoken observations about men's and women's most intimate relationship. Here is the story of Ariane, a beautiful, innocent young girl, who falls passionately in love with a wealthy, sophisticated older man. Eager to win him, she boldly becomes his mistress but refuses him the satisfaction of knowing that he has taken her heart as well. Taunting him with memories of the men in her past, carefully concealing her activities when they are apart, Ariane drives her lover to a jealous frenzy which brings their tempestuous affair to a sudden, dramatic climax.