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Herodias
By Gustave Flaubert.
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Anna Summers. 2013
Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer's New York Times bestselling scary fairy…
talesBy turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya--who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King--is best known for in Russia.Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer.Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
By Charles Dickens.
Mary Barton
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
The Mistress of Nothing
By Kate Pullinger. 2009
The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian…
England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from her debilitating tuberculosis, her lady's maid, Sally, doesn't hesitate to leave the only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress's side. As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences freedoms she has never known--forgoing corsets and wearing native dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance. But freedom is a luxury that a lady's maid can ill afford, and when Sally's newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing. Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home--or a way to an unknown future. Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, The Mistress of Nothing is a lush, erotic, and compelling story about the power of race, class, and loveAll This Could Be Yours
By Joshua Trotter. 2011
Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection…
is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows.Eve and David
By Honore De Balzac, Ellen Marriage.
Diana
By Russell Smith. 2008
In the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), Smith's pornographic novel explores female desire. The unnamed narrator - gorgeous,…
sophisticated, bored, underemployed - embarks on a series of intense urban encounters in an unnamed city. Her desire is limitless: passionate, playful, intense, humorous. Diana is a literary experiment to arouse and to paint a sexual portrait of a city.No Thoroughfare
By Charles Dickens.
Cabbages and Kings
By O. Henry.
George Silverman's Explanation
By Charles Dickens.
The Hidden Masterpiece
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
The Marriage Contract
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
The Vicar of Wakefield
By Oliver Goldsmith.
The White People
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Deserted Woman
By Honore De Balzac, Ellen Marriage.
The Gadfly
By E. L. Voynich.
The Turmoil
By Booth Tarkington.
The Shuttle
By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Emancipated
By George Gissing.