Loved itfor me it was a unique and important reminder to celebrate love while there's still time because I'm very sorry to say that it won't always be there and you never know when you're going to lose it
Book of Monelle (2012)
Others: Positive "The Book of Monelle" was the result of Schwob's intense emotional suffering over the loss of his love, a "girl of the streets" named Louise, whom he had befriended in 1891 and who succumbed to tuberculosis two years later. Transforming her into the innocent prophet of destruction, Monelle, Schwob tells the stories of her various sisters: girls succumbing to disillusionment, caught between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter world of reality.
- ISBN:
- 9780984115587
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- 136 pages
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