Ladders to Fire explores the erotic attachments of four young women. Nin described it as a “woman’s struggle to understand her own nature.” It began a five-volume “continuous novel,” Cities of the Interior, which includes Children of the...
Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, "Ladies Almanac" is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun...
Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter—the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married...
Dix ans se sont écoulés depuis la fin de «Joseph Balsamo». Le roman s’ouvre également sur un prologue: Au cours d’un souper chez le duc de Richelieu, en 1784, se trouvent réunis certains protagonistes de «Joseph Balsamo» (Taverney,...