Author: Madame B.
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585427727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
With their all-black covers, this elegant and unusual erotica series will entice the most discriminating--and discreet--of readers. In "The Notebooks of Madame B," private indulgences are stripped bare for all to see.
The Notebooks of Madame B
Author: Madame B.
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585427727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
With their all-black covers, this elegant and unusual erotica series will entice the most discriminating--and discreet--of readers. In "The Notebooks of Madame B," private indulgences are stripped bare for all to see.
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN: 9781585427727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
With their all-black covers, this elegant and unusual erotica series will entice the most discriminating--and discreet--of readers. In "The Notebooks of Madame B," private indulgences are stripped bare for all to see.
Wartime Notebooks
Author: Andrzej Bobkowski
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176716
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176716
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429900644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love story whose participants may be the fictional characters of Don Rigoberto. With his usual sly assurance, Vargas Llosa keeps the reader guessing which episodes are real and which issue from the Don's imagination; the resulting novel, an aggregate of reality and fantasy, is sexy, funny, disquieting, and unfailingly compelling.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429900644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Set in Lima, the novel tells of a love story whose participants may be the fictional characters of Don Rigoberto. With his usual sly assurance, Vargas Llosa keeps the reader guessing which episodes are real and which issue from the Don's imagination; the resulting novel, an aggregate of reality and fantasy, is sexy, funny, disquieting, and unfailingly compelling.
The Notebooks of Henry James
Author: Henry James
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226511049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."—V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman "The Notebooks take us into his study, and here we can observe him, at last, in the very act of creation at his writing table."—Leon Edel, Atlantic Monthly "A document of prime importance."—Edmund Wilson, New Yorker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226511049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally relieved by a drop of gossip."—V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman "The Notebooks take us into his study, and here we can observe him, at last, in the very act of creation at his writing table."—Leon Edel, Atlantic Monthly "A document of prime importance."—Edmund Wilson, New Yorker
Serial Murder and Media Circuses
Author: Dirk C. Gibson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080984
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in common: significant presence of the mass media. This book examines these specific cases of serial murder, and the way the media became involved in the investigations and trials of each. Gibson argues that the American media plays a multidimensional and integral role in serial killings and their investigation—and that this role is not generally a positive one. Serial murder cases motivate the media in unfortunate ways, and the result is that even typically respectable media organizations can be involved in such things as document theft, or in interfering with the capture of serial murderers on the run. This link between multiple murderers and mass communication is not accidental or coincidental; rather, the relationship between the press and serial killers is one of extraordinary importance to both parties. Gibson examines the role of the media in serial murder cases; the body of knowledge on serial murder as seen through the lens of mass communication; the effectiveness of law enforcement responses to serial murderers and how they might be improved if the mass communication influence was better understood; the magnitude of the serial murder problem; and the interaction between the media, the killers, and serial murder investigations. Specific examples and numerous quotes are provided throughout to illustrate this strange and detrimental relationship between media and serial murderers.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080984
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in common: significant presence of the mass media. This book examines these specific cases of serial murder, and the way the media became involved in the investigations and trials of each. Gibson argues that the American media plays a multidimensional and integral role in serial killings and their investigation—and that this role is not generally a positive one. Serial murder cases motivate the media in unfortunate ways, and the result is that even typically respectable media organizations can be involved in such things as document theft, or in interfering with the capture of serial murderers on the run. This link between multiple murderers and mass communication is not accidental or coincidental; rather, the relationship between the press and serial killers is one of extraordinary importance to both parties. Gibson examines the role of the media in serial murder cases; the body of knowledge on serial murder as seen through the lens of mass communication; the effectiveness of law enforcement responses to serial murderers and how they might be improved if the mass communication influence was better understood; the magnitude of the serial murder problem; and the interaction between the media, the killers, and serial murder investigations. Specific examples and numerous quotes are provided throughout to illustrate this strange and detrimental relationship between media and serial murderers.
Oysters & Chocolate
Author: Jordan LaRousse
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101046600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A mouth-watering anthology from the creators of the popular online destination for women's erotica The naughty masterminds behind OystersandChocolate.com serve up a tasty anthology like no other. It's for readers who crave the classic, creamy taste of smooth vanilla...for readers who like the sting of a bittersweet whip of black licorice...for readers who delight in a cocktail with a dirty twist...for readers who prefer the succulent taste of a sweet-scented oyster. From the premier source of boundary-pushing erotica comes an anthology that dares to cross the spectrum of sexuality and sensuality-from the tenderly romantic to the totally taboo. Whatever you're craving, Oysters & Chocolate fulfills every desire, no matter how decadent, how wanton, or how delicious.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101046600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A mouth-watering anthology from the creators of the popular online destination for women's erotica The naughty masterminds behind OystersandChocolate.com serve up a tasty anthology like no other. It's for readers who crave the classic, creamy taste of smooth vanilla...for readers who like the sting of a bittersweet whip of black licorice...for readers who delight in a cocktail with a dirty twist...for readers who prefer the succulent taste of a sweet-scented oyster. From the premier source of boundary-pushing erotica comes an anthology that dares to cross the spectrum of sexuality and sensuality-from the tenderly romantic to the totally taboo. Whatever you're craving, Oysters & Chocolate fulfills every desire, no matter how decadent, how wanton, or how delicious.
Isabelle's Notebooks
Author: Sylvie Chaput
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550711424
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Following the love story of painter Joseph Légaré's niece, Isabelle Forest, and novelist Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Sylvie Chaput carefully and creatively chronicles her picture of Quebec in the 1830s. Chaput writes of the turbulence Quebec endured as her lovers battle the dangers of severe political unrest and a huge cholera epidemic. This novel also recalls the role of art, specifically painting, as a permanent force in a tumultuous world.
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550711424
Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Following the love story of painter Joseph Légaré's niece, Isabelle Forest, and novelist Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, Sylvie Chaput carefully and creatively chronicles her picture of Quebec in the 1830s. Chaput writes of the turbulence Quebec endured as her lovers battle the dangers of severe political unrest and a huge cholera epidemic. This novel also recalls the role of art, specifically painting, as a permanent force in a tumultuous world.
Etude Music Magazine
Author: Theodore Presser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Includes music.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Includes music.
Brown Sugar
Author: Carol Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101213116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This rich and diverse collection of Black erotica brings together eighteen original short stories by America’s premier Black authors—Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Leone Ross, Pamela Sneed, and many more. The stories showcased in this collection cover the full spectrum of Black experience and identity as they reveal sexuality, sensuality, and romance in all their forms. Steamy, playful, and romantic, this joyous anthology embraces the ardor and passion of Black love and desire. Featuring both well-established authors and promising new writers, this one-of-a-kind collection represents the past, present, and future of Black literature at its pleasurable and outrageous best.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101213116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This rich and diverse collection of Black erotica brings together eighteen original short stories by America’s premier Black authors—Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Leone Ross, Pamela Sneed, and many more. The stories showcased in this collection cover the full spectrum of Black experience and identity as they reveal sexuality, sensuality, and romance in all their forms. Steamy, playful, and romantic, this joyous anthology embraces the ardor and passion of Black love and desire. Featuring both well-established authors and promising new writers, this one-of-a-kind collection represents the past, present, and future of Black literature at its pleasurable and outrageous best.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141399651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0141399651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.