Author: Patricia Rice
Publisher: Book View Cafe
ISBN: 1611386985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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A Regency classic from NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice: Tainted by the gossip regarding her mad mother, Daphne Templeton surprises family and society by spurning Lord Griffin, the only gentleman interested in courting her. While fleeing London rumors, she is captured by a highwayman who’s determined to have her as his own. Even Daphne questions her own judgment when she prefers the clandestine kisses of a masked stranger to a reliable gentleman who openly declares his love. Will Daphne prove that madness and mayhem are a product of love, or vice versa? Regency Love and Laughter series: Crossed in Love Mad Maria’s Daughter Artful Deceptions All A Woman Wants Keywords: Regency England, aristocrat, highwayman, humor, heir, rogue, wallflower, historical romance, disguise, spinster, bad boy, conspiracy; military hero
Author: Lizzie St. John Eckel Harper
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Author: Lizzie Saint John ECKEL
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Author: Muriel Spark
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385720904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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In Aiding and Abetting, the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose. When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildegard Wolf’s Paris office, there is one problem: she already has a patient who says he’s Lucan, the fugitive murderer who bludgeoned his children’s nanny in a botched attempt to kill his wife. As Dr. Wolf sets about deciding which of her patients, if either, is the real Lucan, she finds herself in a fierce battle of wills and an exciting chase across Europe. For someone is deceiving someone, and it may be the good doctor, who, despite her unorthodox therapeutic method (she talks mainly about her own life), has a sinister past, too. Exhibiting Muriel Spark’s boundless imagination and biting wit, Aiding and Abetting is a brisk, clever, and deliciously entertaining tale by one of Britain’s greatest living novelists.
Author: Patricia Rice
Publisher: Book View Cafe
ISBN: 1611386993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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One question teases the mind, the other troubles the heart— A Regency classic from NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice. . . Eldest daughter of an eccentric art collector, Arianne Richards is the caretaker of the family’s empty coffers—as well as her irrepressible siblings. Discovering a hidden painting, she is determined to sell it to obtain the funds to provide care for her ailing mother. But when her cousin’s suitor, the handsome and wealthy Lord Galen Locke, shows interest in her, as well as the painting, Arianne must question his intentions. But will the truth bring about secrets that should have remained buried? Regency Love and Laughter series: Crossed in Love Mad Maria’s Daughter Artful Deceptions All A Woman Wants Keywords: aristocrat, art, Regency, humor, Wales, lost love, historical romance, scandal, secret heir, spinster, betrayal, disguise, best friends,
Author: Marilyn Butler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000743063
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3276
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This book is a collection of novels The Absentee, Madame de Fleury, and Emilie de Coulanges by Maria Edgeworth that address issues of nationalism in an Anglo-Irish context and that will be of much use to scholars, students and general readers interested in fictional works. MARIA EDGEWORTH was born in 1768. Her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800) was also her first Irish tale. The next such tale was Ennui (1809), after which came The Absentee, which began life as an unstaged play and was then published (in prose) in Tales of Fashionable Life (1812), as were several of her other stories. They were followed in 1817 by the last of her Irish tales, Ormond. Maria Edgeworth died in 1849. Edited with an introduction and notes by Marilyn Butler.
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968583264
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that show the best of this author's work: - The Grateful Negro - The Prussian Vase - The Good Aunt - The Good French Governess - The Orphans - The False Key - Tarlton
Author: Marilyn Butler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000123006
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 4899
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This collected edition makes available all of Maria Edgeworth's major fiction for adults, much of her juvenile fiction, and also a selection of her educational and occasional writings. A dual pagination system indicates original page numbers for scholars.
Author: Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084388X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Best known during the Middle Ages as the prostitute who became a faithful follower of Christ, Mary Magdalen was the most beloved female saint after the Virgin Mary. Why the Magdalen became so popular, what meanings she conveyed, and how her story evolved over the centuries are the focus of this compelling exploration of late medieval religious culture. Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation. She draws on diverse historical sources to reveal the laity's devotion to Mary Magdalen, which departed significantly from the friars' image of the saint, signaling a major development in popular religious practice and personal piety. Finally, the author comprehensively addresses the question of the House of Anjou's alliance with the Magdalen, and illuminates the relationship between politics and sanctity in southern France and Italy. Jansen shows how perceptions of the Magdalen merged with errors and misunderstandings to shape the social, spiritual, and political agendas of the later Middle Ages. She brings to life the rich complexity of medieval culture, which condemned female sexuality and women's preaching and yet popularized the veneration of Mary Magdalen as a former prostitute chosen by Christ to be the "apostle of the apostles," the first to witness and preach the Good News of the Resurrection.
Author: Laura Preston
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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