Belle Epoque

Belle EpoqueWhen sixteen year old Maude runs away to Paris, her romantic dreams vanish as quickly as her savings. Increasingly desperate for money, she answers a mysterious advert: 'Young Women Wanted for Undemanding Work. Apply In Person To The Durandeau Agency.' But the work is very strange indeed. Maude discovers she is to be a repoussoir an ugly young woman hired by Parisian socialites to enhance their beauty. Maude is humiliated but faced with destitution,

One of the most important and influential works of the Western Canon

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psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience

The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers

at the age of twenty-two

anger and desire

Paint beautiful works of art using the special brush-and-ink techniques cultivated for centuries by Chinese artists--techniques that allowed them to represent the structure and spirit of any subject

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while in 1805

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But Kinsey wasn't going back on a deal

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