Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd.

In a village in southern Spain lives Frasquita Carrasco, a seamstress who has the reputation of magician or witch, because it seems to give life into the garments she sews. One day, her husband plays in a bid Frasquita and loses. That forces her to commit adultery and leave town with their children and flee through Andalusia. This region, in the late nineteenth century, was steeped with peasant revolts where she will be tragically involved. Their journey takes them to Africa, where Frasquita gives birth to her last child and will be closing her cycle of life.

Set in Corsica and France in the year 1841 and narrated in first person by Alexandre Dumas himself, this book tells of his experiences on a trip to that island, where he meets Lady Savilia and her son Lucien, who tells him that he has a twin brother named Louis. Siamese twins that have since been separated, the brothers' union is forever maintained, making one feel the pain of the other and vice versa, regardless of the distance separating them. "Situado en Corcega y Francia en 1841 y narrado en primera persona por el mismo Alexandre Dumas, este libro narra sus experiencias en un viaje a esa isla, en la cual conoce a Lady Savilia y su hijo Lucien, quien le cuenta que tiene un hermano gemelo llamado Louis. Hermanos siameses que han sido separados, su union permanece, haciendo que uno sienta el dolor del otro y viceversa, sin importar la distancia que los separe."