It is the tale of a French sailor on extended leave in Nagasaki, Japan, who arranges for a "temporary wife" with whom to bide his time until his ship sets sail again.
Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Emilio Salgari, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Kapitän Marryat, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Amalie Schoppe, Pierre Loti, G. K. Chesterton, Robert Kraft, Franz Treller & Gustave Aimard
Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Conrad, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Emilio Salgari, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Kapitän Marryat, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Amalie Schoppe, Pierre Loti, G. K. Chesterton, Robert Kraft, Franz Treller & Gustave Aimard
Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl May, Walter Scott, Emilio Salgari, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Frederick Kapitän Marryat, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Amalie Schoppe, Joseph Conrad, Pierre Loti, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Kraft, Franz Treller, Gustave Aimard, Heinrich Zschokke & Miguel de Cervantes
Hippolyte Taine, Émile Zola, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Morley, W. L. Alden, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pierre Loti, Saki, Frederick Stuart Greene & H. P. Lovecraft
