Description
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de V n rande becomes enamored 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.
Author: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 211
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.90w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780873529303
ISBN10: 0873529308
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with special emphasis on prose fiction of the Decadent period and on women writers. Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with special emphasis on prose fiction of the Decadent period and on women writers. Liz Constable is Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies program at UC Davis. Her primary research areas focus on late nineteenth-century and twentieth century French and Francophone Cultural Studies and Film. She has published widely in these areas, including articles on Simone de Beauvoir and French women decadent writers.