Les diaboliques
By J. Barbey d'Aurevilly
Cover: Sophie Rude - Portrait de femme à la robe noire, 1863 by Sophie Frémiet (Sophie Rude) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) is a collection of short stories written by Barbey d'Aurevilly and published in France in 1874. Each story features a woman who commits an act of violence, or revenge, or some other crime. It is considered d'Aurevilly's masterpiece. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
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