Varia

Varia

By Agnes Repplier
Michael Caine
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Length4h 53m

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Excerpt: "There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Such a phrase—employed with tireless irrelevance in journalism, and creeping into the pages of what is, by courtesy, called literature—is the "new woman." It has furnished inexhaustible jests to "Life" and "Punch," and it has been received with seriousness by those who read the present with no light from the past, and so fail to perceive that all femininity is as old as Lilith, and that the variations of the type began when Eve arrived in the Garden of Paradise to dispute the claims of her predecessor. "If the fifteenth century discovered America," says a vehement advocate of female progress, "it was reserved for the nineteenth century to discover woman;" and this remarkable statement has been gratefully applauded by people who have apparently forgotten all about Judith and Zenobia, Cleopatra and Catherine de Medici, Saint Theresa and Jeanne d'Arc, Catherine of Russia and Elizabeth of England, who played parts of some importance, for good and ill, in the fortunes of the world."

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length4 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 3, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CONTENTS.
6THE FÊTE DE GAYANT.
2THE ETERNAL FEMININE.
7CAKES AND ALE.
3THE DEATHLESS DIARY.
8OLD WINE AND NEW.
4GUIDES: A PROTEST.
9THE ROYAL ROAD OF FICTION.
5LITTLE PHARISEES IN FICTION.
10FROM THE READER’S STANDPOINT.

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