TY - BOOK AU - Louÿs,Pierre AU - Monkshood,G.F. TI - Woman and Puppet, Etc AV - PQ PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, French -- Translations into English KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_and_the_Puppet; Release date is 2016-02-02; Woman and puppet -- The new pleasure -- Byblis -- Lêda -- Immortal love -- The artist triumphant -- The Hill of Horsel; E-text prepared by Clarity, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Woman and Puppet, Etc." by Pierre Louÿs is a novel written in 1898. Set during carnival in Seville, it tells the story of don Mateo Diaz and his turbulent relationship with Conchita Pérez, a bewitching young Andalusian woman. Through cycles of attraction and rejection, flirtation and jealousy, don Mateo finds himself manipulated for fourteen months before a violent confrontation changes everything. The novel explores obsessive passion and psychological manipulation in a tale that has inspired numerous opera and film adaptations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51107 ER -