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The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara’s attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him. Thus, The Egoist dramatizes the difficulty contingent upon being a woman in Victorian society, when women’s bodies and minds are trafficked between fathers and hu...
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a wilful wife. As is common with Trollope’s works, there are also several substantial subplots. Trollope considered this work to be a failure; he viewed the main character as unsympathetic, and the secondary characters and plots much more lively and interesting.
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York “Society”, who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly mobile beauty from “Apex City”, transplanted to New York, and finally to France, leaving the dead and wounded in the wake of her “experiments in happiness”.
The storyteller describes about the love between Okada (his friend) & Otama (a mistress of an usurer). Okada met Otama when he's walking around. (by ekzemplaro)
Eine Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten.
Eine Mordbande geht um in Paris. Unbekannte Täter lauern reichen Herren auf, töten sie mit einem Stich ins Herz und rauben kostbaren Schmuck. Eines Nachts bringt ein Unbekannter ein Kästchen in das Haus des Fräuleins von Scuderi, einer 73jährigen angesehenen Schriftstellerin, die auch mit Ludwig XIV bekannt ist.Das Kästchen enthält einen kostbaren Schmuck, der von niemand anderem als dem berühmten Goldschmied René Cardillac gefertigt sein kann. Einige Zeit später wird das Fräulein aufgefordert, den Schmuck in die Werkstatt Cardillacs zu bringen. Doch als sie dort ankommt, trägt man die Leiche des Goldschmieds aus dem Haus. C...