The rule breakers, the cunning and ambition ones, the ruthless and resourceful ones, the femmes fatales and the self-reliant ones - all, rebels of their time. This collection is dedicated to the "bad girls" of literature, to women who dared to selfishly wish for power, fulfillment or wealth.
Content:
Cousin Betty (Honoré de Balzac)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Memoirs of Fanny Hill (John Cleland)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
Medea (Euripides)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Anna Karenina (Lew Tolstoi)
The Golden Dog (William Kirby)
The Eustace Diamonds (Anthony Trollope)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)
Queen Margot (Alexandre Dumas)
Gone to Earth (Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
The Doctor's Wife (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Leone Leoni (George Sand)
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas fils)
Leonora (Maria Edgeworth)
In the Year of Jubilee (George Gissing)
Aurora Floyd (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant)