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."
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Rating★★★★ 3.5 (12)
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length10 hrs 11 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTORY
2I. I MAKE MY DÉBUT
3II. I AM ABDUCTED
4III. I ESCAPE
5IV. I FALL INTO THE HANDS OF A COLLECTOR
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6V. I AM CARRIED AWAY AS A SPECIMEN
7VI. I AM “PINNED OUT”
8VII. I AM PUT AWAY IN CAMPHOR
9VIII. I MEET MR. NOEL DE CRESPIGNY
10IX. I AM COMMITTED TO THE ——
11X. I BEWITCH A MONSTER
12XI. I ADD THE LAST TOUCH TO A PORTRAIT
13XII. I AM INFAMOUSLY RETALIATED ON
14XIII. I AM WOOED TO SELF-DESTRUCTION
15XIV. I AM RESCUED BY MY MONSTER
16XV. I BECOME AN INMATE OF “RUPERT’S FOLLY”
17XVI. I PUT AN END TO ONE FOLLY
18XVII. I AM CONSIGNED TO A GREEN GRAVE
19XVIII. I BEGIN ANOTHER FOLLY
20XIX. I AM MAID MARIAN
21XX. I PUT AN END TO FOLLY NUMBER TWO
22XXI. I AM METAMORPHOSED
23XXII. I RUN ACROSS AN OLD FRIEND
24XXIII. I AM MADE FORTUNE’S MISTRESS
25XXIV. I FIND A FRIEND IN NEED
26XXV. I DECLARE FOR THE KING
27XXVI. I RENEW AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
28XXVII. I KNOW HOW TO WAIT
29XXVIII. I RETURN TO NAPLES
30XXIX. I STILL KNOW HOW TO WAIT
31XXX. I AM JUSTIFIED IN MY POLICY
32XXXI. I KNOW MY OWN HEART
33NOTES.
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