The Inn Of Tears

Jacques Frhel Was The Pseudonym Of Alice Tlot (1861-1918), And The Stories In The Present Volume Were Published Between 1 June 1888 And 18 February 1903 Under That Pseudonym In Various Periodicals, Though Primarily In La Fronde, A Feminist Newspaper Entirely Written By Women. Compiled And Translated Into English For The First Time By Brian Stableford, This Collection Of Stories And Prose Poems, Previously All But Impossible To Find, Is Like A Series Of Deeply Intoxicating Draughts Of A Liquor Of Madness, Sorrow, Ecstasy And Splendor. Spanning The Moods Of Naturalism, Symbolism And Decadence, The Pieces Of The Long-forgotten But Brilliant Tlot Range From The Starkly Tragic To The Hallucinatory, From Rustic Images Of Then Contemporary Normandy To Bizarre Scenes Of Mythology And Pseudohistory Of The Bretagne Of Druids, Bards And Early Christian Saints-from The Mysterious Boulevards Of Paris To The Peppery Precincts Of Ancient Egypt.