You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant. You will work affectionately for us both in this room -- and in my absence there will be nothing beside you but the pure, simple presence of your sewing machine. You will practice patience which is as long as life -- and maternity, which is as heavy as the world.

Author: Henri Barbusse
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781606640050

About the Author
O'Brien, Edward J.: - Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) was a U.S. author, poet, editor and anthologist. He was noted for compiling an annual collection of short stories by U.S. authors, The Best American Short Stories.Barbusse, Henri: - "Henri Barbusse (1873 - 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein. The Russian Revolution had significant influence on Barbusse's life and work. He joined the French Communist Party in 1923 and later traveled back to the Soviet Union. His later works, Manifeste aux Intellectuels (Elevations) (1930) and others, show a more revolutionary standpoint. Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution. Barbusse characterized the birth of Soviet Russia as the greatest and most beautiful phenomenon in world history. The book Light from the Abyss (1919) and the collection of articles Words of a Fighting Man (1920) contain calls for the overthrow of capitalism. In 1925, Barbusse published Chains, showing history as the unbroken chain of suffering of people and their struggle for freedom and justice. In the publicistic book The Butchers, he exposes the White Terror in the Balkan countries."