The Nun’s Story.

HULME, Kathryn.

$750.00

Item Number: 95304

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.

First edition, early printing of Hulme’s best-selling novel, basis for the classic film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Virginia Stanley with Best Wishes Kathryn Hulme.” Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

Based partly upon the experiences of the author's friend, Marie Louise Habets of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, The Nun's Story chronicles the life of a nun who finds her faith tested in a remote Congo hospital. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn. It was a critical and box office success, and Hepburn was nominated for an Academy Award for the third time.