TY - BOOK AU - Prévost,Marcel TI - Les Demi-Vierges AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Young women -- France -- Social conditions -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_%22demi-vierges%22; Release date is 2004-03-01; This Etext was prepared by Walter Debeuf, Project Gutenberg Volunteer, http://digibooks.ibelgique.com; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les Demi-Vierges" by Marcel Prévost is a novel published in 1894. The story centers on Maud de Rouvres, a bourgeois young woman who manipulates her suitors by granting intimacy while preserving her virginity for a wealthy husband. Her calculated games with two admirers—the elegant but poor Julien and the rich Maxime—lead to jealousy, betrayal, and tragedy. The novel explores several such "demi-vierges" navigating the boundaries between virtue and desire in French society, sparking controversy upon its release. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11747 ER -