Description: A scandalous bestseller of mid-nineteenth-century France, translated here for the first time into English.
Review Quotes: "This is an extremely fine translation. I like the translator's grasp of descriptive passages and her achievement of a modern idiom devoid of jarring anachronisms. To make Nelida available to modern English-speaking readers is to contribute to the history of women's literature, of women's status, and of coming into self-awareness in the nineteenth century."