A novel, translated by Robert Baldick.
Even so, the New Republic.
Decades ahead of its time, "Hell" shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in English in 1866.
Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first love, marriage, betrayal, illness and death all present themselves to him through this spy hole.
A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed.
A novel, translated by Robert Baldick