"Marneffe, destroyed by the debaucheries peculiar to great capital cities, described by the Roman poets but for which our modern sense...

"He had been before in drawing rooms hung with red damask, with pictures 'of the Italian school'; what struck him was the way i...

Guy de Maupassant notes in Bel Ami : "The old woman in her turn kissed her daughter-in-law with hostile reserve. No, this was not th...

Absinthe and its hallucinogenic reputation have contributed to the mythos of it being the drink of artists and poets who harnessed its ...

Perfume Shrine loves to read. Loves to read all sorts of books. Especially those that have an inward afinity with what is not mentioned in e...