Highly-strung, very silly, very cringy. Possibly the first example of (non-explicit) slash “erotica“ written by a virgin young woman with access to a stash of “forbidden books“, but definitely not the last 😂
The politics are muddled but interesting. There is a lot of internalised classism and sexism, as should be expected in a 1884 book.
I'll read a more mature work from this author before passing judgment on her.
A young heiress plays gender-bending domination games in life and in bed with a young working-class man, who's trapped and unwilling. I can see how revolutionary and subversive this is for a 1884 novel written by a then 24-year old female writer, but it is a bit of a slog for me: decadent, fin-de-siècle works aren't my cup of tea. I can see that it would appeal to others, as it did to Oscar Wilde, who made a hidden reference to it in Dorian Gray.
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."
Just finished listening to the tagged book. Very interesting read. They mentioned in the story about a book poisoning someone. So I thought, could this happen? I decided to come on here and ask all of u lovely littens. What do you think?
pick4.3⭐️ I was introduced to Serial Reader @Roary47 which is what I‘m using to complete my classic countdown for the year. I really like how it breaks down the classic by issues that you read once a day. I have always wanted to read this book in super excited that I finished my last issue tonight. Looking forward to my next classic February.
The notorious DUNCE BOOKS brings an English translation of the scandalous 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒅𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆́ 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂̀ 𝒍'𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒅'𝒆́𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. An infamous erotic literary work by the French writer Pierre Louÿs, written in 1917 and published posthumously in 1927.
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Only dull people are brilliant 🤩 at breakfast 🍳 is another of my favs 😀
