Brecht Plays: v. 8: Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the Commune, Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn and David J. Constantine
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The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into...
Joie De Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French
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The Scarlet Code
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1789. The Bastille has fallen... As Parisians pick souvenirs from the rubble, a killer stalks the...
Historical fiction The French Revolution Action packed France English spies
Cat Conundrum (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mysteries)
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Locked-room murders are being committed in sleepy little Long Beach, Washington. As to the killer,...
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Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a...
Little Favour (2013)
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A short film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Salmon and Nick Moran. LITTLE FAVOUR follows the...
Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
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Colette Iselin is excited to go to Paris on a class trip. She’ll get to soak up the beauty and...
ClareR (5996 KP) rated The Woman in the Wallpaper in Books
Oct 14, 2025
Sofie and Lara Thibault, along with their mother, move from Marseille to work in a wallpaper factory near Paris after he violent death of their father. The Oberst factory provides them all with a job and Josef Oberst becomes friends with the sisters.
A marriage and the Revolution see an end to the friendship.
I loved all the historical details around the Revolution, what it was like to work in a wallpaper factory, and the differences between the workers and the aristocracy. I could feel the tension radiating off the page, building to its incendiary, and very sad conclusion. I thought the character- and world-building were excellent, and I even felt some sympathy for the awful, aristo wife of Josef.
It’s a fabulous addition to stories set during the French Revolution.