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      "A captivating exercise in intriguing symbolism." -John Taylor, Times Literary Supplement

      When Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast of Brittany…

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      Rachilde, the writer whose formal name was Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1853), is primarily remembered today for her sensational decadent novel Monsieur Venus (1884), which was prosecuted as pornography in Belgium, where…

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      The Juggler: Marguerite Eymery Vallet Rachilde

      Melanie C. Hawthorne,Melanie C. Hawthorne

      The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a
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      novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Eymery Vallette (1860-1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over…

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      The Blood-Guzzler and Other Stories

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      Rachilde was the pseudonym employed by Marguerite Eymery (1860-1953). Though remembered today primarily for her novels, which include the Decadent masterpiece Monsieur Venus, she was also an exceptional writer of…

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      The Demon of the Absurd

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      There is no other reality than things invented by an inimitable imagination. Everything else is foolishness or error. . . . If Rachilde is the only one to be frightened…

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      Decadent Plays: 1890-1930

      Michael Field, Lesya Ukrainka, Rachilde, Remy de Gourmont

      Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history - decadent plays challenged the moral as much as…

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      Le Dessous (1904)

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      Le Dessous est un roman de l'?????crivaine fran?????aise Rachilde, publi????? en 1904. L'histoire suit le personnage principal, Jacques Silvert, un jeune homme qui se sent prisonnier de sa vie bourgeoise…

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      Le Tiroir de Mimi-Corail (1887)

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      Le Tiroir De Mimi-Corail est un roman de Rachilde, publi????? en 1887. L'histoire suit le personnage de Mimi-Corail, une jeune femme qui vit dans un monde de fantaisie et de…

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      Le Tiroir de Mimi-Corail (1887)

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      Le Tiroir De Mimi-Corail est un roman ?????crit par Rachilde et publi????? en 1887. L'histoire se d?????roule dans le Paris du XIXe si?????cle et suit les aventures de Mimi-Corail, une…

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      Rachilde (1907)

      Ernest Gaubert

      Sweet, young Annie Pederson lived alone on their ranch after her fatheras death. Going out into the big world, she still led a lonely and boring life while trying to…

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      Rachilde (1907)

      Ernest Gaubert

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      Le Dessous (1904)

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      This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…

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      Le Dessous (1904)

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      Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer

      Diana Holmes

      Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus , Marguerite Eymery burst onto the French literary scene in 1884. This story of a transvestite and her male lover was the…

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      La Tour D'Amour: Roman

      Rachilde 1860-1953

      This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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      Maternal Fictions: Stendahl, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille

      Maryline Lukacher

      Stendhal, George Sand, Rachilde, Georges Bataille: Forgoing the patronym, with its weight of meaning, these modern French writers renamed themselves in their work. Their use of pseudonyms, as Maryline Lukacher…

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      Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism

      Melanie C. Hawthorne

      An account of Rachilde’s writing that illustrates important questions in feminist literary theory as well as significant features of turn-of-the-century French society. It illuminates nineteenth-century publishing practices and rivalries, including…

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      Monsieur Venus

      Rachilde

      In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamoured of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.

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      Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-de-Si_cle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde

      Michael R. Finn

      This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century…

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      The Sentiment of Spending: Intimate Relationships and the Consumerist Environment in the Works of Zola, Rachilde, Maupassant, and Huysmans

      Alison M. K. Walls

      The nineteenth century saw a fundamental change in the practice and psychology of shopping with the appearance of the department store: La Samaritaine in Paris (1869), Macy’s in New York…

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      Rachilde (1860-1953): Weibliches Dandytum ALS Lebens- Und Darstellungsform

      Rachilde (eigentlich Marguerite Eymery) - franzosische Dekadenzautorin, weiblicher Dandy und Salonbesitzerin - und ihre aussergewohnlichen literarischen Gender-Maskeraden gewinnen seit einigen Jahren in der Fin de siecle- und Gender-Forschung an Bedeutung…

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