5 似ている本: ファニー・ヒルの回想録
カサノヴァ回想記
"The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. He financed business…
共通テーマ:Sex customs, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir, History
水仙荘の殺人
Ein Londoner Geschaftsmann entla©t seineAngestellte fristlos. Kurze Zeit spater liegter erschossen im Gras des Hyde Park ...
共通テーマ:Young women, England
水の年代記
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as untraditional…
共通テーマ:Sexuality, Young women, Women, Biography & Memoir
モル・フランダース伝
These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction.
Her fortunes and…
共通テーマ:Prostitutes, Women, Social life and customs, History
名もなき女
No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society.
共通テーマ:Young women, England, Social life and customs