Posted by Joffre on 23/9/2009, 16:20:53, in reply to "Re: All the information required on the book cover"
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Hey Rizwan,
I hope you can reproduce that note for us. I'd like to see what it says. I do feel, though, that I may disagree with it. I found this online: "the yellow French novel is in James often an emblem for French fiction of an audacity (particularly in matters of sex) denied to the English...." That's from a book called Henry James Goes to Paris, not the most scholarly sounding title, I admit.
It is, of course, possible and perhaps probable that French fiction in general was considered more audatious, but the next line from that book is about books with pink covers which were considered proper for young girls.
