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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate Overall a good book, I had to read this for a lit class of mine. It can though sometimes drone on as the language can be overly superfluous. It is in some resepcts at sometimes salacious which always makes for a good read. I did have trouble following what was going on at times as well due to the excessive language. Related books
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Page xxiv - ... and adapted to advance humanity on its path of progress. By the guts of all the popes past, present, and future, no, and two hundred thousand times no... Page xxvi - No, fools, no, .... a book does not make gelatine soup; a novel is not a pair of seamless boots; . . . There are two sorts of utility, and the meaning of the vocable is always a relative one. What is useful for one is not useful for another. You are a cobbler, I am a poet. It is useful to me to have my first verse rhyme with my second. Page xxiii - Poor fellows! Their noses are too short to admit of their wearing spectacles, and yet they cannot see the length of their noses. If an author threw a volume of romance or poetry on their desk, these gentlemen would turn round carelessly in their easy chair, poise it on its hinder legs, and balancing themselves with a capable air, say loftily — "What purpose does this book serve? How can... Page xxvi - ... department to another to obtain the contemptuous gift of some office or other. I am aware that there are people who prefer mills to churches, and the bread of the body to the bread of the soul. I have nothing to say to such people. They deserve to be economists in this world and in the next likewise. Is there anything absolutely useful on this earth and in this life of ours ? To begin with, there is mighty little use in our being on this earth and living. I challenge the wisest of the company... Page 279 - What a pleasure it must be to let their lips wander over this smooth fine skin, and these rounded curves which seem to go out to meet the kiss and challenge it! this satin flesh, these undulating and mutually involving lines, this silky hair so soft to the touch; what exhaustless sources of delicate voluptuousness which we do not possess in common with men! Our caresses can scarcely be other than passive, and yet it is a greater pleasure to give than to receive. These are remarks which undoubtedly... Page 284 - She came up to me, sat down on my knees more quickly than lightning, passed her arms round my neck, crossed her hands behind my head, and clung with her lips to mine in a furious embrace; I felt her half-naked and rebellious bosom bounding against my breast, and her twined fingers twitching in my hair. A shiver ran through my whole body, and my heart beat violently. Rosette did not release my mouth; her lips enveloped mine, her teeth struck against my teeth, our breaths were mingled. I drew back... Page xxiv - We cannot make a cotton cap out of a metonymy, or put on a comparison like a slipper; we cannot use an antithesis as an umbrella, and we cannot, unfortunately, lay a medley of rhymes on our body after the fashion of a... Page xxviii - Sardanapalus, give a large premium to any «me inventing a new pleasure ; for enjoyment appears to me to be the end of life and the only useful thing in the world. Page xxviii - ... my verse badly rhymed, and that I should be more willing to go without boots than without poems. ... I know that there are some who prefer mills to churches, and bread for the body to that for the soul. To such I have nothing to say. They deserve to be economists in this world and also in the next. For my own part, may it please these gentlemen, I am one of those to whom superfluity is a necessity — and I like things and persons in an inverse ratio to the services that they render me. I prefer... References from web pagesMademoiselle de Maupin - Théophile Gautier - Livre - EVENE TIENDA DREAMERS: MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN Detalle del libro: MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN - Libreria Rafael Alberti Mademoiselle de Maupin I Grandi Libri [862] Introduzione ... Mademoiselle de Maupin Gautier Théophile ALIBRI Llibreria goldlyrics.com - The Internet's Biggest Database Of Song Lyrics Bibliographic information
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