Stocking, Kathleen
Summary: Introspective essays that interpret life and effort through nature and the primal cycles of life.--Adapted from back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rivertree Press 2019
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Hewitt, Catherine
Summary: "Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017