Calvary (a Novel) (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Calvary (a Novel)Years and years have passed. Everything that I loved is now dead. Everything that I knew has taken on a new appearance. The church has been rebuilt. It now has an embellished doorway, arched windows, fancy gutter-spouts representing ﬂaming mouths of demons; its new brick belfry laughs gaily into the blue; in place of the old house there now rises an elaborate Swiss cottage built by the new proprietor who, in the enclosure, has increased the number of colored glass balls, small cascades and plaster statues of Love, soiled by rain. But things and people are engraved so profoundly upon my memory that time could not apply a burnisher hard enough to erase them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Octave Mirbeau

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A Diary of a Chambermaid

Nexus

A Chambermaid's Diary

Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Torture Garden

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Juno Books

<p>A French chambermaid, who has served in Paris, in the houses of the nobility, the bourgeois, and professional people, finally enters the service of a rich couple living in the country, and there begins to keep a diary. In describing the events of her daily life and the people about her, she is frequently reminded of episodes in her past, and digresses to relate them. Thus her diary becomes a piquant panorama of social life and institutions. It is a terrific social exposure, a grim social satire, crammed with humor, bitterness, and truth. It has been described by a French critic as "an attempt to show that nearly all the masters are low-lived wretches, and that nearly all the servants are as near like them as they know how to be."</p>

Chambermaid's Diary

Maggie Mack

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

<p>A Chambermaid's Diary Octave Mirbeau Célestine, a chambermaid, muses in her diary about her first employer, who fetishises her boots. She discovers him dead, with - what else? - one of her boots in his mouth. Célestine later works for a couple and finds herself at the center of a power struggle in their marriage. But will life become more enriching when it is her turn to give the orders? AUTHOR: Octave Mirbaud PUBLISHER: Pearl Necklace Books TRANSLATOR: Benjamin Tucker (Translated to English From the Original French)</p>

Calvary

A dense compendium of old and brand-new translations of a dizzying array of names from the individualist anarchist tendency, mostly from early 20th Century France. New translations from Wolfi Landstreicher, Shawn Wilbur, and vincent stone. Anyone who is interested in this tendency, fans of My Own, Enemies of Society, Stirner's works, etc., will find much to enjoy and fodder for future research in this book.

Disruptive Elements: The Extremes of French Anarchism

Politics & Social Sciences

Ernest Coeurderoy

Joseph Dejacque

Zo d'Axa

Georges Darien

Emile Pouget

Albert Libertad

Pierre Chardon

Emile Armand

Andre Lorulot

Politics & Government

Ardent Press

Journal d'une Femme de Chambre

Classics

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