Octave Mirbeau

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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Abbe Jules, first published in 1888, is the second part of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy and tells the story of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. Narrated from the viewpoint of a small boy, it depicts the stifling atmospher...

• Dec-1999
• / Literary
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'In the catalogue of novels about lives distorted by unhappy schooldays, Mirbeau's contribution must be one of the bitterest. He follows the young, carefree Sebastien from a small French town to the bleak Breton coast. There the Jesuit fathers, in wh...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Celestine is one of the great female characters in literature. Rhoda Koenig in The Sunday Times The Diary of a Chambermaid was written as a satire of Parisian society in the wake ...

• Mar-2007
• / Erotica
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• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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A translation of the French avant-garde novelist's 1900 work which unsettled traditional novelistic conventions by practicing the technique of collage, transgressing the code of fictional credibility and defying the rules of hypocritical propriety....

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad by modern life, Georges Vasseur leaves for a rest cure, where he encounters corrupt politicians, amnes...

• / Psychological Suspense
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Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has b...