A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks surveys marriage as contract, comedy, ordeal, aspiration, and social institution across an unusually broad transnational archive. Its stories and dramatic selections move from satirical intrigue and drawing-room wit to domestic realism, psychological conflict, sentimental romance, and pointed social critique. Comic reversals, contested inheritances, illicit desires, estranged spouses, and the pressures of respectability recur throughout, while...

Odette: The protagonist, Odette, is a young woman whose life and decisions drive the narrative. Her character may represent a blend of traditional and modern values, reflecting the societal changes of the time.The Marriage: Odette's marriage is central to the plot, serving as a focal point for exploring various themes. The nature of her marriage—whether it is arranged, a love match, or complicated by external factors—plays a crucial role in the story's development.Love and Duty: The novel ...

In "Odette's Marriage," Albert Delpit masterfully intertwines themes of love, cultural identity, and the complexities of personal choice within the framework of contemporary relationships. Utilizing a lyrical yet accessible prose style, Delpit delves into the life of Odette, a woman caught between the expectations of her heritage and her desire for self-fulfillment. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of social change, echoing literary movements that emphasize the psychological depth ...

The Complete Works of Albert DelpitThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. 12 - Jean-nu-pieds, Vol. 23 - Le Fils de Coralie4 - Mademoiselle de Bressier5 - Odette's Marriage

She rode slowly up the sandy avenue of the country house, and drew rein before the broad steps."Good morning, Odette!" Mme. Descoutures called to her, leaning over the balustrade. "Come up here before you go into the house. I wish to have a little talk with you.""Is my father at home?""No; he has gone out for a walk, with my husband."Odette called her groom and dismounted. Gathering the long black train of her riding habit in her hand, she quietly ascended t...

Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup:AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth BraddonTHE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. JeromeTHE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick BangsTHE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis BeckeTHE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. BensonTHE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-LyttonTHE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by H. de Vere StacpooleTHE DRU...

Alexandre Dumas, pre (French for "father," akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), The Three Musketeers (1844), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848) were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific corr...

CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES gathers twenty classic thrillers in which the season of hospitality, ritual, and domestic reunion becomes a charged setting for crime, secrecy, supernatural disturbance, and detection. Moving among Gothic hauntings, locked-room puzzles, sensation fiction, social satire, adventure, and the emerging detective tale, the volume reveals how Christmas's promise of comfort can intensify unease. Its varied settings and tonal registers—from genial firesides to ominous country ho...

This short vignette from Honore de Balzac, a key figure in French realism, is a story within a story. The narrator, Nathan, regales a pair of aristocratic ladies with stories about the Rusticoli family and its most prominent member, La Palferine. At first, his audience is unappreciative, but over time, they become wrapped up in the multi-generational saga. Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comedie Humaine, which pres...

Since the first publication of her groundbreaking sensation novel 'Lady Audley's Secret' in 1862, M. E. Braddon's works have gripped the imagination of readers across the world for over one hundred and fifty years. This comprehensive eBook presents the many diverse works of M. E. Braddon, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with imag...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in Europea...

This illustrated treasury gathers more than ninety Christmas classics into a capacious panorama of winter ritual, charity, childhood wonder, moral reckoning, and supernatural unease. Its contents range across fairy tale, realist sketch, domestic fiction, comic anecdote, devotional meditation, and Gothic fantasy, placing familiar seasonal consolations beside darker visions of poverty, loneliness, and redemption. Standout modes include enchanted journeys, haunted visitations, village scenes,...