An adulterer is forbidden to marry the adulteress’ sister unless the adulteress is sure that she is not pregnant and this can be ascertained by menstruating one time or until she has delivered her ...
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters ...
Julien, the son of a minister has just married Birgitt, a Swede she met during her holidays on the French Riviera. She was recovering, having come to rest with Julien's father, a friend of her ...
THE GENERAL’S LADY—Esther Forbes— Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Esther Forbes’s four novels (O Genteel Lady!, Paradise, etc.) have been full of romantic literary tricks. In spite of this they ...
Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress and repentant whore. Discoveries of new texts from the dry sands of Egypt, along with sharpened ...