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Marry me : a romance
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ISBN: 039440856X Year: 1976 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Knopf

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Histoire de l'adultère : XVIe-XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782262024307 2262024308 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : Perrin,

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Il y a la belle Angélique qui n'en pouvait plus, Perrette et ses amants, Jean dont le retour n'est pas attendu ni même souhaité, les dames galantes, les maîtresses royales ; il y a monsieur de Montespan et sa calèche à cornes, des aventures sanglantes, joyeuses, terribles, tristes aussi. Les histoires d'amour finissent parfois mal, celles de l'adultère en apportent souvent la preuve. L'infidélité n'a pourtant pas été considérée ni réprimée de la même façon au cours de l'histoire. A la Cour par exemple, le roi se montre en majesté avec sa maîtresse sans craindre de scandaliser la bourgeoisie qui n'autorise aucun écart. Depuis la fin du Moyen Age, une législation sévère et inégalitaire pour la femme s'applique en effet à l'ensemble du royaume de France. Il faudra attendre la loi sur le divorce de 1884 pour que le déséquilibre sexuel s'estompe, et surtout le XXe siècle pour que la répression cesse... Mais ce que montre aussi l'historienne Agnès Walch, c'est la difficulté de nouer une relation conjugale solide lorsque les parents font pression, lorsque des problèmes d'argent surgissent ou que l'entente sexuelle ne peut être trouvée. Question posée à la condition féminine, à la conception du mariage d'amour, à la législation matrimoniale, l'inconstance conjugale parle de sexe, de passion, de haine, de provocation, de dérision, et au final fait écho à nos préoccupations contemporaines.

Do with me what you will
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ISBN: 0814907504 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Vanguard press

Anna Karenina
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ISBN: 0191586234 0585387605 0192833812 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Many believe Anna Karenina to be the greatest novel ever written. The impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, is set against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, illuminating the most important questions which beset humanity. This edition uses Louise and Aylmer Maude's classic translation - still unsurpassed - and is printed here with a new introduction and detailed annotation. - ;In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home.


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Alice in Shandehland
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ISBN: 0773583378 9780773583375 077354559X 9780773545595 9780773583405 0773583408 9780773545595 Year: 2015 Publisher: Montreal [Quebec] Ottawa, Ontario

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By 1931, Ben and Alice Edelson had been married for two decades and had seven children, but for years Alice had been having an affair with the married Jack Horwitz. On the night of 24 November, Ben, Alice, and Jack met at Edelson Jewellers to settle the thing. Words flew, a brawl erupted, and Jack was shot and killed. The tragedy marked the start of a sensational legal case that captured Ottawa headlines, with the prominent jeweller facing the gallows. Through a detailed examination of newspaper coverage, interviews with family and community members, and evocative archival photographs, Monda Halpern's Alice in Shandehland reconstructs a long-silenced murder case in Depression-era Canada. Halpern contends that despite his crime, Ben Edelson was the object of far less contempt than his adulterous wife whose shandeh - Yiddish for shame or disgrace - seemed indefensible. While Alice endured the censure of both the Jewish community and the courtroom, Ben's middle-class respectability and the betrayal he suffered earned him favoured standing and, ultimately, legal exoneration. Revealing the tensions around ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and class, Alice in Shandehland explores the divergent reputations of Ben and Alice Edelson within a growing but insular and tenuous Jewish community, and within a dominant culture that embraced male success and valour during the emasculating 1930s.


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John Thomas and Lady Jane
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ISBN: 0434407372 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Heinemann


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The first Lady Chatterley
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ISBN: 0434407364 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Heinemann

La femme coupable : petite histoire de l'épouse adultère au XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 2902702825 9782902702824 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris Imago

The tale of two lovers Eurialus and Lucretia
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ISBN: 9062039995 Year: 1988 Volume: vol 77 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

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