TY - BOOK AU - Mirbeau,Octave AU - Tucker,Benjamin Ricketson TI - A Chambermaid's Diary AV - PQ PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Chambermaid_(novel); Release date is 2013-11-28; Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Chambermaid's Diary" by Octave Mirbeau is a novel published in 1900. Presented as the diary of Célestine, a chambermaid, the work exposes the hidden perversions and hypocrisies of French high society through the eyes of a servant. As she moves between households, Célestine witnesses the moral corruption of the wealthy classes, ultimately concluding that "decent people" are often more vile than criminals. Mirbeau's subversive narrative denounces domestic service as modern slavery while challenging traditional novel conventions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44303 ER -