Author: Tamara Gill
Publisher: Tamara Gill
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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A Gentleman's Promise Charlotte King bows to family duty and marries a man who traps her in a bad marriage, her life an endless cycle of pain and fear. That is, until Lord Helsing shows her another way to live. Lord Mason Helsing upon returning to London, finds his friend Charlotte is in a loveless and cruel marriage. Should he throw away the principles by which he lives and follow a different path in life? Divorce for Charlotte means ruination. And Mason is relied upon to marry well for his family. Can they overcome the strictures of society and live the life they’ve always wanted? Or will they bow to pressure and do as society deems appropriate? A Captain's Order Lady Eloise Bartholomew's trip abroad with her brother ends in tragedy when he dies. But with the conventions of English society suspended on the high seas, she finds passion in the arms of a rugged ship's captain, only to be dumped back into the ton, still burning from the fire ignited in her and the loss of the only man she ever loved. Gabriel Lyons, the Duke of Dale, never intended to set foot in London again. But when his brother dies, and the woman who claimed his heart brings him home, he knows he has to face his past. He can only pray their love will survive the scandal that sent him away. A Marriage Made in Mayfair Miss Suzanna March dreams of the elusive, rakish charmer, Lord Danning. But after a frightful first season, her dreams are crushed. That is, until she returns to London a new woman, and one who will not let anything stand in her way of gaining what she wants: revenge on the lord who gave her the cut direct. Lord Danning is in financial strife and desperate to marry an heiress. Miss Suzanna March fits all his credentials. But will Suzanna fall for pretty words from a charmer? Or will Lord Danning prove to Suzanna that she is more than his ticket out of debtor's prison?
Author: Julia London
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668026570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Originally published by in New York by Pocket Books, 2008.
Author: Jago Morrison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287840
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten texts against the challenges of their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.
Author: Julia London
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416579478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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This first in a “lusciously sensual and delightfully witty” (Booklist) Regency romance series from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Julia London follows an estranged couple finding love amidst scandal. Known as the Libertine of Lindsey, Nathan Grey, the Earl of Lindsey, is notorious for his disgraceful ways with women. But when he hears rumors that his estranged wife, Evelyn, is about to be named in the Princess of Wales’s infamous Book of Scandal, he has no choice but to remove her from London to protect them both—even if it’s against her wishes. Evelyn has no affection for the man who broke her heart years ago, but she is also no longer the naïve young girl he married. Her reluctant reunion with Nathan quickly turns into a battle of wills that lays bare the passion that still burns between then. But the two have powerful adversaries who would like nothing more than to see them torn apart and soon, Nathan must do everything he can to prove to the world and to Evelyn that she is not only his wife, but the woman he loves.
Author: Lynda M. Thompson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719055737
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Thompson presents a re-appraisal of the 'scandalous memoirists' Costantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, who feature with a cast of other 18th century apologists, and overturns scholarship's traditional discrediting of them.
Author: Alex Ling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350068578
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these 'ordinary' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such 'real scandal', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this 'static' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
Author: Julia London
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439159408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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From a New York Times bestseller, a Regency-era marriage of convenience with “nuanced characters, subtle wit, and [an] elegantly sexy style . . . captivating” (Booklist). On the run from the wrathful Prince of Wales, Jack Haines, Earl of Lambourne, is taken prisoner by a Highland laird who makes him an unusual offer: if Jack handfasts his niece, then his life will be spared. The old Highland custom—a marriage lasting only a year and a day, unless both partners agree to make it a lifelong vow—sounds preferable to Jack to being dragged to London in chains, and when he meets lovely Lizzie Beal, his dilemma starts to seem positively enjoyable. Until the hellion vents her fury . . . on him! Detesting the scandalous match that will end all her chances of making a respectable marriage, Lizzie can’t abide living intimately with a fugitive nobleman bent on seducing her and then running off. But in teaching her the pleasures of a wife’s duties, Jack sparks within them both a passion that will make him wish he could stay with Lizzie for much longer than a year and a day. Praise for The Book of Scandal, book 1 in the Scandalous series “[A] convincing tale of romance and intrigue.” —Publishers Weekly “Touching and terrific.” —BookPage
Author: Michael Diamond
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843310767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
Author: Karen Robards
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743410599
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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England, 1810: When Lady Gabriella Banning receives word that her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, has died on his tea plantation in Ceylon, she faces the reality that she and her younger sisters, Claire and Elizabeth, are suddenly penniless. The family's riches will pass to the next male heir -- a distant cousin -- and the Banning sisters are doomed unless Gabby thinks fast. Which she does. Pretending that Marcus is still alive, Gabby arranges beautiful Claire's London season. She'll keep up the pretense just long enough for Claire to marry a fabulously wealthy nobleman. But when a handsome gentleman arrives at the door and claims to be Marcus, Gabby's plan backfires. For if she exposes this mysterious stranger's deceit, she exposes her own. Bound by secrets and lies, Gabby and the roguish adventurer strike sparks off each other -- and soon London society is abuzz over the scandalous pair of "siblings" who appear to be falling in love.... With this beautifully rendered romance, bestselling author Karen Robards begins a sweeping series about three unforgettable sisters poised to take the ton by storm.
Author: Christie Kelley
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 142010876X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Renowned for creating vivid, lovable characters with intense sexual tension and fun plots to keep readers turning the pages, Kelly returns with her third exciting book featuring a group of spinster friends in Regency England. Original.
