Woman and Puppet, Etc. by Pierre Louÿs
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"Woman and Puppet, Etc." by Pierre Louÿs is a novel written in 1898. Set during carnival in Seville, it tells the story of don Mateo Diaz and his turbulent relationship with Conchita Pérez, a bewitching young Andalusian woman. Through cycles of attraction and rejection, flirtation and jealousy, don Mateo finds himself manipulated for fourteen months before a violent confrontation changes everything. The novel explores obsessive passion and psychological manipulation in a tale
that has inspired numerous opera and film adaptations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Louÿs, Pierre, 1870-1925 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Monkshood, G. F., 1872- |
| Title | Woman and Puppet, Etc. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_and_the_Puppet |
| Contents | Woman and puppet -- The new pleasure -- Byblis -- Lêda -- Immortal love -- The artist triumphant -- The Hill of Horsel. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Clarity, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (archive.org/details/americana) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, French -- Translations into English |
| Subject | French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 51107 |
| Release Date | Feb 2, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 22, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 508 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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