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So Beautiful. This shirtless "she" was Doris Brigitte von Knobloch, a Darmstadt dental assistant. Fraülein von Knobloch was one of the hundreds of thousands of Europe's little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she...
This French novel, economical, quiet and painful in its insights, concerns the old Catholic bourgeois society of France before World War I. The central figure in the story is Brigitte Pian, a woman whose intense religious life is a mask for her pride and will to dominate others. The scruples...
Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction.
Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent...
When the priest connives with the girl to get her letters to him, Brigitte discovers it and brings a complaint against the priest. Sickened by loneliness and by the discovery that his adored mother is an adulteress (a masterly story in itself), the boy steals money from his tutor and...