The courtship, the wedding night, the first baby, the nurse, the mother-in-law, the boredom, and a great deal that the 1860s did not put in print. Droz trained as a painter and exhibited at the Salon for a decade before a magazine asked him for sketches of married life; the book went through a hundred editions and was thought scandalously frank. Fifty-eight paintings by Renoir and Tissot, from riverside meadows to dockyards, echo the book's domestic scenes in the open air.
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On Mothers, Marriage, Divorce and Children : Enriched Edition. Autobiographical Jazz Age insights on mothers, marriage, divorce, and children
Life Is Sweeter Than I Thought
The Martins
A Versailles Christmas Tide
A Garland for Girls
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant : The Timeless Stories of Guy de Maupassant
I Miss You When I Blink : Essays
Our Lives
How to Get a Loving Couplehood
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
The Marriage Devotional : 365 Simple Ways to Celebrate Your Love
Fatherland : A Novel
Notes From the Underground
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Magic Skin
Master and Man
Eugénie Grandet
The Gambler : A Story of the Roulette Table
Bel Ami : or, The History of a Scoundrel
Notes from the Underground : A Confession from a Petersburg Corner
White Nights, and Other Stories : Stories of the Petersburg Nights
Father Goriot : A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
The Fortune of the Rougons
Carmen : A Tale of Seville