Author: Louisa Trent
Publisher: Trent Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Late 19th Century Gilded Age Romance Petty thief and consummate liar Daisy Crumbly scrambles to learn the rules of seduction in a risky scheme to swindle wealthy merchant James Cornell out of a fortune. Daisy's last vestige of innocence is on the line even before her plan goes awry. Then, the young pickpocket succumbs to her much older mark's dark magnetism and loses all to him: her innocence, her self-respect, her very idea of what love is and what it is not. And when he demands more of her, she surrenders that too until she is left with nothing more to give him... Save herself, all of herself, every naked corner and honest inch of herself.
Virgin Encounter
Author: Louisa Trent
Publisher: Trent Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Late 19th Century Gilded Age Romance Petty thief and consummate liar Daisy Crumbly scrambles to learn the rules of seduction in a risky scheme to swindle wealthy merchant James Cornell out of a fortune. Daisy's last vestige of innocence is on the line even before her plan goes awry. Then, the young pickpocket succumbs to her much older mark's dark magnetism and loses all to him: her innocence, her self-respect, her very idea of what love is and what it is not. And when he demands more of her, she surrenders that too until she is left with nothing more to give him... Save herself, all of herself, every naked corner and honest inch of herself.
Publisher: Trent Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Late 19th Century Gilded Age Romance Petty thief and consummate liar Daisy Crumbly scrambles to learn the rules of seduction in a risky scheme to swindle wealthy merchant James Cornell out of a fortune. Daisy's last vestige of innocence is on the line even before her plan goes awry. Then, the young pickpocket succumbs to her much older mark's dark magnetism and loses all to him: her innocence, her self-respect, her very idea of what love is and what it is not. And when he demands more of her, she surrenders that too until she is left with nothing more to give him... Save herself, all of herself, every naked corner and honest inch of herself.
The Glass Virgin
Author: Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074327430X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From bestselling author Catherine Cookson comes a compelling riches-to-rags story featuring secrets, scandal, and emotional drama set in Victorian England. Annabella Lagrange had the kind of childhood that most can only dream about. The only child of an aristocratic couple, raised on their magnificent estate in the English countryside, she was loved by her parents and coddled by servants who acquiesced to her every whim. She was allowed to do anything she wanted, except, of course, to stray too far from her wing of the house. But her seclusion didn't concern her too much, because when she grew up, she planned to marry her handsome cousin Stephen and live happily ever after. However, on the morning of her tenth birthday, Annabella ventured farther than she'd ever gone before. Overcome with curiosity, she opened a forbidden door that led into her father's private quarters, and what she found there showed her with shocking clarity that her father was not the man she thought he was. And though she couldn't know it at the time, the events of that day set in motion the uncovering of a secret that had been kept for many years. So begins the remarkable story of Annabella Lagrange, a sensitive, beautiful young woman who was raised as a lady. But when she turns eighteen, she learns the surprising circumstances of her birth, and her entire world quietly crashes around her. Suddenly she's forced from the genteel surroundings of her youth into the rough, lower-class society of Victorian England, where only her quick wit and determination can save her from starvation. Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers, and in The Glass Virgin her powers are at their height. Rarely has a heroine been portrayed more sensitively or a situation more compellingly. Filled with passion and drama, The Glass Virgin is a rare treat for lovers of romantic fiction.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074327430X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From bestselling author Catherine Cookson comes a compelling riches-to-rags story featuring secrets, scandal, and emotional drama set in Victorian England. Annabella Lagrange had the kind of childhood that most can only dream about. The only child of an aristocratic couple, raised on their magnificent estate in the English countryside, she was loved by her parents and coddled by servants who acquiesced to her every whim. She was allowed to do anything she wanted, except, of course, to stray too far from her wing of the house. But her seclusion didn't concern her too much, because when she grew up, she planned to marry her handsome cousin Stephen and live happily ever after. However, on the morning of her tenth birthday, Annabella ventured farther than she'd ever gone before. Overcome with curiosity, she opened a forbidden door that led into her father's private quarters, and what she found there showed her with shocking clarity that her father was not the man she thought he was. And though she couldn't know it at the time, the events of that day set in motion the uncovering of a secret that had been kept for many years. So begins the remarkable story of Annabella Lagrange, a sensitive, beautiful young woman who was raised as a lady. But when she turns eighteen, she learns the surprising circumstances of her birth, and her entire world quietly crashes around her. Suddenly she's forced from the genteel surroundings of her youth into the rough, lower-class society of Victorian England, where only her quick wit and determination can save her from starvation. Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers, and in The Glass Virgin her powers are at their height. Rarely has a heroine been portrayed more sensitively or a situation more compellingly. Filled with passion and drama, The Glass Virgin is a rare treat for lovers of romantic fiction.
Allied Encounters
Author: Marisa Escolar
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823284514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Honorable Mention for the 2019 American Association for Italian American Book Prize (20-21st Centuries) Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies’ global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet “liberation” did not prove to be the happy ending touted by official rhetoric. Instead of a “honeymoon,” the Allied–Italian encounter in cities such as Naples and Rome appeared to be a lurid affair, where the black market reigned supreme and prostitution was the norm. Informed by the historical context as well as by their respective traditions, these texts become more than mirrors of the encounter or generic allegories. Instead, they are sites in which to explore repressed traumas that inform how the occupation unfolded and is remembered, including the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and European colonialism, as well as individual traumatic events like the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the mass civilian rape near Rome by colonial soldiers
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823284514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Honorable Mention for the 2019 American Association for Italian American Book Prize (20-21st Centuries) Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies’ global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet “liberation” did not prove to be the happy ending touted by official rhetoric. Instead of a “honeymoon,” the Allied–Italian encounter in cities such as Naples and Rome appeared to be a lurid affair, where the black market reigned supreme and prostitution was the norm. Informed by the historical context as well as by their respective traditions, these texts become more than mirrors of the encounter or generic allegories. Instead, they are sites in which to explore repressed traumas that inform how the occupation unfolded and is remembered, including the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and European colonialism, as well as individual traumatic events like the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the mass civilian rape near Rome by colonial soldiers
The Arts of EncounterThe Arts of Encounter
Author: Catherine Infante
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487509324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims. Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources – including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings – Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487509324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early modern Spain, but they were also a point of contention between Christian and Muslim cultures. Writers of narrative fiction, theatre, and poetry were attuned to these debates, and religious imagery played an important role in how early modern writers chose to portray relations between Christians and Muslims. Drawing on a wide variety of literary genres as well as other textual and visual sources – including historical chronicles, travel memoirs, captives’ testimonies, and paintings – Catherine Infante traces the references to religious visual culture and the responses they incited in cross-confessional negotiations. She reveals some of the anxieties about what it meant to belong to different ethnic or religious communities and how these communities interacted with each other within the fluid boundaries of the Mediterranean world. Focusing on the religious image as a point of contact between individuals of diverse beliefs and practices, The Arts of Encounter presents an original and necessary perspective on how Christian-Muslim relations were perceived and conveyed in print.
Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses
Author: M. Norris
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137016310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137016310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels.
Andromeda's Chains
Author: Adrienne Munich
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231068735
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Applying feminist theory to some lesser-known works by well known authors and painters, Munich (English, SUNY, Stony Brook) explores the psychological and cultural implications of the Victorian (male) treatment of the Perseus and Andromeda myth and its medieval analog, the legend of St. George and the dragon. With 31 photographs of the works discussed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231068735
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Applying feminist theory to some lesser-known works by well known authors and painters, Munich (English, SUNY, Stony Brook) explores the psychological and cultural implications of the Victorian (male) treatment of the Perseus and Andromeda myth and its medieval analog, the legend of St. George and the dragon. With 31 photographs of the works discussed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
On Moorstead
Author: Louisa Trent
Publisher: Trent Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A twelvemonth after breaking her witch's oath and wantonly injuring Gralam of Normandy, Avice the Enchantress learns she erred in her curse. To undo the wrong she did the warlord, she summons him to her in a rune. Rendered lame and impotent, the arrogant Norman resists the witch's incantations. He wants none of Avice's magic. Save, he does want her. He cannot resist the charming peasant wench with the slanted green eyes and falcon-like ways. Surely, she has bewitched him? Though Gralam will condemn her for her misdeed, the virgin Avice seduces the surly warlord, for she cannot make him reparations unless she whores for him. Whore for him she does. But admit to him her crime? Nay! Verily, that Avice the Enchantress cannot bring herself to do. Not in fear of a fiery death at the stake, but in fear of losing him .
Publisher: Trent Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A twelvemonth after breaking her witch's oath and wantonly injuring Gralam of Normandy, Avice the Enchantress learns she erred in her curse. To undo the wrong she did the warlord, she summons him to her in a rune. Rendered lame and impotent, the arrogant Norman resists the witch's incantations. He wants none of Avice's magic. Save, he does want her. He cannot resist the charming peasant wench with the slanted green eyes and falcon-like ways. Surely, she has bewitched him? Though Gralam will condemn her for her misdeed, the virgin Avice seduces the surly warlord, for she cannot make him reparations unless she whores for him. Whore for him she does. But admit to him her crime? Nay! Verily, that Avice the Enchantress cannot bring herself to do. Not in fear of a fiery death at the stake, but in fear of losing him .
V is for Virgin
Author: Kelly Oram
Publisher: Bluefields
ISBN: 0985627727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Kyle Hamilton is the quintessential bad boy, but Val Jensen is not your typical good girl. When Val gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup goes viral on YouTube, making her the latest internet sensation. After days of ridicule from her peers, Val starts a school-wide campaign to rally support for her cause. She meant to make a statement, but she never dreamed the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy. As if becoming nationally recognized as "Virgin Val" isn't enough, Val's already hectic life starts to spin wildly out of control when bad boy Kyle Hamilton, lead singer for the hit rock band Tralse, decides to take her abstinence as a personal challenge. How can a girl stay true to herself when this year's Sexiest Man Alive is doing everything in his power to win her over?
Publisher: Bluefields
ISBN: 0985627727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Kyle Hamilton is the quintessential bad boy, but Val Jensen is not your typical good girl. When Val gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup goes viral on YouTube, making her the latest internet sensation. After days of ridicule from her peers, Val starts a school-wide campaign to rally support for her cause. She meant to make a statement, but she never dreamed the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy. As if becoming nationally recognized as "Virgin Val" isn't enough, Val's already hectic life starts to spin wildly out of control when bad boy Kyle Hamilton, lead singer for the hit rock band Tralse, decides to take her abstinence as a personal challenge. How can a girl stay true to herself when this year's Sexiest Man Alive is doing everything in his power to win her over?
Virginity Lost
Author: Laura Carpenter
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716520
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Includes information on abstinence, abstinence focused sex education, African Americans, Asian Americans, birth control, born again virginity, chastity, coming out, conservative Christians, definitions of virginity loss, double standard, Latinos, Latinas, oral sex, race, ethnicity, rape, religion, secondary virginity, stigma, technical virginity, etc.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716520
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Includes information on abstinence, abstinence focused sex education, African Americans, Asian Americans, birth control, born again virginity, chastity, coming out, conservative Christians, definitions of virginity loss, double standard, Latinos, Latinas, oral sex, race, ethnicity, rape, religion, secondary virginity, stigma, technical virginity, etc.
Possessed by the Virgin
Author: Kristin C. Bloomer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190615095
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in Tamil Nadu, south India who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. The author follows the lives of these women over many years, investigating questions about gender, social power, agency, and authenticity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190615095
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in Tamil Nadu, south India who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. The author follows the lives of these women over many years, investigating questions about gender, social power, agency, and authenticity.