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Beschreibung
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780873529303
ISBN-10: 0873529308
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: P201552
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rachilde
Redaktion: Hawthorne, Melanie
Constable, Liz
Übersetzung: Hawthorne, Melanie
Hersteller: Modern Language Association
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 14 x 140 x 216 mm
Von/Mit: Rachilde
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2004
Gewicht: 0,32 kg
Artikel-ID: 115066925

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