Eighteenth-century Stories

First published in 1786-1790, this satire on the French aristocracy treats of the amorous adventures of a very young French aristocrat at the very end of the Ancien Regime. Faublas, not yet sixteen, disguises himself as a girl for a joke, and goes to a ball. The Marquis of B*** lusts after him, and brings him home with his wife, hoping to seduce him. But it is his wife the Marchioness de B*** who takes the boy's virginity. Ready, like any healthy teenager, to sleep with anyone who shows willing, he is soon involved in a complex web of disguises and pseudonyms. This gives rise to a sequence of farcical episodes, as he tries to satisfy three different women, along with occasional one-night stands. Even marriage does not put an end to his philandering antics. Farce soon shades into melodrama, and at last into tragedy. Note: A long digression near the beginning is almost a separate work about the Polish resistance to Russian conquest. Seemingly irrelevant, it turns out to be of great importance to the plot.

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Enola and her partner, Elena, who was a beautiful lady that every man have dreamed of. She was seen more feminine than Enola but their determination and strength equal. One day they where being followed by an unknown person who's metal stick clanged on the floor loudly. They look to see who it is and when Enola turns around to Elena she shrugs but Elena saw a shadow of a man. She grabbed Enola by the sleeve and ran, dragging her away. Suddenly, they bump into a very tall and might I say a very attractive man. Elena scans his face as he struggles to stand. "Sherlock?" Enola asks. The man was indeedly Sherlock, Enola's brother. She and Sherlock were close friends and he figured she was more sensible that Enola but Elena denied is everytime. She might be more of a feminine type but fierce when needed to be...

20 year old Elinor has spent her life taking care of her father, but when the tragedy of his passing comes, she is torn. Leaving the only life she's known with the risk of destitution, or swallowing her pride... Having no fortune or prospects, she has no choice but to please the new caretakers into letting her stay, including their four sons.

In 1703 a man appeared in England calling himself George Psalmanazar and claiming to be a native of Formosa (nowadays called Taiwan). He sustained this pretence by publishing a book, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan, which purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy, but which was in fact a complete invention. As time went on, he was less and less believed, and had to make an honest living. Towards the end of his long life he published this memoir, describing his adventures and confessing his impostures. Two things he kept secret to the grave, however: his real name and his country and place of origin.