The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
From inside the book
... Andalusa. Unhurriedly, she got up, washed, and dressed. The night before, after the painter Jules Laure visited to wish her luck on her tour, she had finished packing her bags and, with the help of Marie-Madeleine, the maid, and the ...
... Andalusa. What if Colonel Mariano Tristán had lived many years more? You'd never have known poverty, Florita. Thanks to a good dowry, you'd be married to a bourgeois, and maybe you'd be living in a beautiful Vaugirard mansion ...
... Andalusa. As planned, the gathering drew some thirty members of one of the associations into which the mutual aid societies of Auxerre had split, a group with the lovely name of Duty to Be Free. These members, almost all shoemakers ...
... Auxerre. She wasn't discouraged. Chin up, Florita. Things hadn't gone well, but they hadn't gone badly either. Putting yourself at the service of humanity was hard work, Andalusa. 2 The Spirit of the Dead Watches Mataiea, April 1892.
... Andalusa. But she didn't regret having been a wage earner in her youth. At first it seemed wonderful to her, liberating, not to have to spend days shut up in the squalid hovel on the rue du Fouarre, to leave the house very early and ...
Contents
Mysterious Waters | |
The Shadow of Charles Fourier | |
Annah from Java | |
News from Peru | |
Portrait of Aline Gauguin | |
Nevermore | |
Arequipa | |
What Are | |
The Nun Gutiérrez | |
Wrestling with the Angel | |
The Battle of Cangallo | |
The House of Pleasure | |
Words to Change the World | |