The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana Please
By Bernard Capes
Length10h 11m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "If the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self-dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries; it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography. Diane Rosemonde de St. Croix (to give her her proper mother-title) considered that she owed to Romance, in a glowing age, what, in a practical one, is conceded by a thousand dull and petty vanities to a vulgar curiosity—her personal reminiscences. She had at least the justification of her qualities, and the good fortune to find, in her latter-day friend, the Marquis de C——, an enthusiastic historian of them. In the question of their appeal, one way or the other, to the English reader, the present transcriber (from the original French notes) must hold himself responsible both for choice and style. Madame de St. Croix was a "passionist," as the French called Casanova; and, indeed, she had many points in common with that redoubtable adventurer: an unappeasable vagabondism; a love of letters; an ardent imagination; an incorruptible self-love; and, lastly, what we may term an exotic orthodoxy. If, subscribing to the universal creed which makes man's soul his fetish, she worshipped an exacting god, she was at least always ready to sacrifice the world to gratify it, and now, no doubt, very logically sings among the angels."
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTORY
18XVII. I AM CONSIGNED TO A GREEN GRAVE
2I. I MAKE MY DÉBUT
19XVIII. I BEGIN ANOTHER FOLLY
3II. I AM ABDUCTED
20XIX. I AM MAID MARIAN
4III. I ESCAPE
21XX. I PUT AN END TO FOLLY NUMBER TWO
5IV. I FALL INTO THE HANDS OF A COLLECTOR
22XXI. I AM METAMORPHOSED
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6V. I AM CARRIED AWAY AS A SPECIMEN
23XXII. I RUN ACROSS AN OLD FRIEND
7VI. I AM “PINNED OUT”
24XXIII. I AM MADE FORTUNE’S MISTRESS
8VII. I AM PUT AWAY IN CAMPHOR
25XXIV. I FIND A FRIEND IN NEED
9VIII. I MEET MR. NOEL DE CRESPIGNY
26XXV. I DECLARE FOR THE KING
10IX. I AM COMMITTED TO THE ——
27XXVI. I RENEW AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
11X. I BEWITCH A MONSTER
28XXVII. I KNOW HOW TO WAIT
12XI. I ADD THE LAST TOUCH TO A PORTRAIT
29XXVIII. I RETURN TO NAPLES
13XII. I AM INFAMOUSLY RETALIATED ON
30XXIX. I STILL KNOW HOW TO WAIT
14XIII. I AM WOOED TO SELF-DESTRUCTION
31XXX. I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY POLICY
15XIV. I AM RESCUED BY MY MONSTER
32XXXI. I KNOW MY OWN HEART
16XV. I BECOME AN INMATE OF “RUPERT’S FOLLY”
33NOTES.
17XVI. I PUT AN END TO ONE FOLLY
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