Diary of a Chambermaid: A Novel

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) was an outstanding French writer, novelist, playwright and publicist, known for his sharp pen and uncompromising views. A member of the Académie Goncourt, he combined the aesthetics of decadence and the influence of anarchism in his work, which fully reflected his turbulent fate. The familiar world of bourgeois good order in which he grew up was destroyed after his marri...