The Diary of a Chambermaid

One of the most scandalous books of it's era, the classic erotic novel The Diary of a Chambermaid was the inspiration for not one but two films-by Jean Renoir and by Luis Buñuel. Penned by the infamous anarchist and art critic Octave Mirbeau, it is the shocking, titillating, and pungently satiric tale of Célestine R., the daughter of a fisherman, and her sensuous adventures and ultimate debasement in the depraved world of the French nobility.