A Chambermaid's Diary - Paperback
A Chambermaid's Diary - Paperback
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by Benjamin R. Tucker (Translator), Octave Mirbeau (Author)
This novel presents itself as the diary of Mademoiselle C lestine R., a chambermaid. Her first employer fetishizes her boots, and she later discovers the elderly man dead, with one of her boots stuffed into his mouth. Later on, C lestine becomes the maid of a bourgeois couple, Lanlaire, and is perfectly aware that she is entangled in the power struggles of their marriage. C lestine ends by becoming a bourgeois caf hostess, who mistreats her servants in turn.
Author Biography
Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 - 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright.
