Download or read book A Lady Hoyden s Secret written by Dawn Brower and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets should never be revealed... As far as Lady Helena Carter is concerned it isn't bad to be a wallflower and a bluestocking. She wants nothing more than to be independent. Her father hasn't made her life easy, and all her mother wants is her to find a husband-any man will do. In order to achieve her goal she comes up with a foolproof plan to achieve her greatest wish. There is only one problem, and a man is at the heart of it. Some secrets can't be kept... Lord Oliver Hunt, the Marquess of Dashville has been plagued with rumors and innuendo for five years, and it's all that dratted Lady X's fault. He made one wrong move in his wayward youth and he's been paying for it ever since. Determined to make the Lady of Whispers see him differently he devises a scheme to make amends to the first lady that Dash slighted. He seeks out Lady Helena for that purpose, but she won't have anything to do with him. Unraveling a secret can be sweet... As they continue to cross paths, desire sparks between them. Their budding romance is tested as secrets are uncovered, and the revelations will either bring them closer together or tear them apart forever.

Download or read book A Lady Hoyden s Secret written by Dawn Brower and published by Monarchal Glenn Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets should never be revealed… As far as Lady Helena Carter is concerned it isn’t bad to be a wallflower and a bluestocking. She wants nothing more than to be independent. Her father hasn’t made her life easy, and all her mother wants is her to find a husband—any man will do. In order to achieve her goal she comes up with a foolproof plan to achieve her greatest wish. There is only one problem, and a man is at the heart of it. Some secrets can’t be kept… Lord Oliver Hunt, the Marquess of Dashville has been plagued with rumors and innuendo for five years, and it’s all that dratted Lady X’s fault. He made one wrong move in his wayward youth and he’s been paying for it ever since. Determined to make the Lady of Whispers see him differently he devises a scheme to make amends to the first lady that Dash slighted. He seeks out Lady Helena for that purpose, but she won’t have anything to do with him. Unraveling a secret can be sweet… As they continue to cross paths, desire sparks between them. Their budding romance is tested as secrets are uncovered, and the revelations will either bring them closer together or tear them apart forever.

Download or read book The Magical Hunt written by Dawn Brower and published by Monarchal Glenn Press. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt is only beginning, and magic swirls within it keeping them both on the right path, and leading them astray… Malediction has claimed Princess Elodie of Zelnon and her friends. They must fight to escape even when it seems like they are living in an endless curse. Through each battle they take one step closer to their ultimate goal—home. What is lost is their key to returning to Zelnon, and Elodie's rightful place on the throne. There are two different paths, both desired, but one will bring her home—the other could lead to her downfall. Some prophecies are self-fulfilling, and Elodie must be careful she doesn’t make her worst fears happen. She has many decisions to make—and once they’re in Zelnon, the true battle will begin. Along with the duties of her kingdom, she must also discern the means to her happiness. Does she believe in love, and if so, who does she give her heart to...

Download or read book The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays written by Charles Ludlum and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, transgressive, erotic, moving, and so theatrical they seem the Platonic ideal of everything we mean when we use that word. The plays are the sublime expressions of what Ludlam insisted was not an aesthetic, but a moral vision: anti-Puritan, unsentimentally utopian, sexually destabilizing—a transporting, a transcendence by means of deflation, a joyous and subversive, even dangerous revelry leading to revelation, a wise and ecstatic celebration of the world.” –Tony Kushner (from his Preface) Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the late Charles Ludlam ransacked theatrical and literary history in an evolutionary quest for a modern art of stage comedy. His more than 30 plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire. As Ludlam himself put it, "This is farce, not Sunday school." This collection includes an introduction by Tony Kushner alongside Ludlam's most famous and celebrated works for the stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep: Ludlam's most famous play, this is a hilarious send up of Daphne de Maurier, Jane Eyre and Victorian cross dressing. One of the most produced plays in the United States, The Mystery of Irma Vep is “the most perfect expression of Ludlam’s approach to theatre: a play that simultaneously provokes terror, laughter and a grotesque mockery of all gender, literary and special boundaries” (Village Voice). Camille: based on La Dame aux Camélias, this satirical take on the tubercular courtesan brings any audience “to unexpected heights of pathos and laughter” (San Francisco Chronicle). Galas: the life of opera singer Maria Callas imagined as a modern tragedy, in which Ludlam himself assayed the part of the diva. Stage Blood: Ludlam's take on Shakespeare, with actors putting on Hamlet both on stage and back stage; somehow, in this tragedy, everything comes out for the best. Bluebeard: somewhat based on H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau, Bluebeard tells the story of a mad vivisectionist in search of a third sex.

Download or read book All I Want for Christmas is a Wayward Duke written by Dawn Brower and published by Monarchal Glenn Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wayward Dukes’ Alliance. A wayward duke is “difficult to control or predict”. The “hero” is either be a duke or expected to inherit a dukedom. None of these dukes want to be trapped by marriage and form a pact to help each avoid matrimony by any means necessary. This Christmas the Wayward Dukes' resolve is tested. Can their alliance hold true, or will the magic of the holiday be too much for even them to resist. One by one they will fall. It's only a matter of how hard and fast they will succumb to the one woman they're destined to love. All their ladies want for Christmas is their own wayward duke, and they are each determined to have their wish fulfilled. Seven Christmas stories in the Wayward Dukes' Alliance in one book. Her Duke to Savor by Dawn Brower Unwrapping the Duke by Jane Charles Never Beg a Duke by Alyssa Drake Wish Upon a Christmas Duke by Amanda Mariel A Duke for December by Nadine Millard What the Duke Desires by Ari Thatcher Boxing with My Duke by Anna St. Claire

Download or read book The Thespian Preceptor Or A Full Display of the Scenic Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The wild gallant The rival ladies The Indian queen The Indian emperor Secret love written by John Dryden and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perfidy Promises A Pride Prejudice Variation Mystery Romance written by Abbey North and published by Abbey North JAFF Books. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzy and her family arrive at Pemberley to allow Fitzwilliam a chance to court her. Things are off to a splendid start until Lady Catherine invites herself, and Caroline Bingley is clearly intent on causing trouble between ODC. Someone is targeting Fitzwilliam and Pemberley for harassment, but is it the same person who murders the stablemaster during Lizzy?s stay? She and Darcy find themselves at odds over theories of the crime, but will that disagreement keep them from building a future together? This is part five of the completed five-book "Crime & Courtship" series. They are intended to be read in order and follow roughly the same timeline and locations as J.A.'s masterpiece. The first mystery takes place in Meryton. The next is at Netherfield, followed by Hunsford, then London, and finally Pemberley. The story arc continues throughout all five parts, compromising one long read broken into five sections. A mystery is central to each installment, so you could call this a cozy mystery sweet Regency romance. While Abbey sometimes writes sensual JAFF, this series is strictly SWEET.

Download or read book Crime Courtship A Sweet Pride Prejudice Mystery Romance Compilation written by Abbey North and published by Abbey North JAFF Books. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzy and Darcy meet first in Meryton and rub each other the wrong way. If not for a series of thefts requiring someone to solve the mystery, they would likely never find an accord. Working together has the unexpected effect of bringing them a new understanding, and when they thwart a kidnapping, she thinks they might have a chance at friendship and perhaps more. Then Darcy and the Netherfield party depart without word or explanation, leaving Jane (and possibly Lizzy) heartbroken. When she sees Darcy again in Hunsford, she?s not sure she can forgive him even as they work together to apprehend a blackmailer. They part with animosity but are reunited in London, finding themselves at the center of a murder investigation. When that brings them closer again, Lizzy accepts an invitation to Pemberley for Darcy to properly court her. Things seem to be going well, even with Lizzy?s mother in attendance, but murder once again threatens to derail their burgeoning romance, and it also brings the return of an old Darcy nemesis.

Download or read book The London Journal 1845 83 written by Andrew King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu to suggest a model of cultural 'zones' where complex issues of power are negotiated through both conscious and unconscious strategies of legitimation and assumption by consumers and producers. He also critically engages with cultural theory as well as traditional scholarship in history, art history, and literature, combining a political economic approach to the commodity with an aesthetic appreciation of the commodity as fetish. Previous commentators have coded the mass market as somehow always 'feminine', and King offers a genealogy of how such a gender identity came about. Fundamentally, however, the author relies on new and extensive primary research to ground the changing ways in which the reading public became consumers of literary commodities on a scale never before seen. Finally, King recontextualizes within the Victorian mass market three key novels of the time - Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (serialised in the London Journal 1859-60), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1863), and a previously unknown version of Émile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise (1883) - and in so doing he lends them radically new and unexpected meanings.

Download or read book The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays written by Charles Ludlam and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Ridiculus Theatre founder Charles Ludlum's major works in one volume.

Download or read book One Moonlit Tryst written by Amanda Mariel and published by Brook Ridge Press. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Tabitha Pemberton wants nothing more than to enjoy her first season without becoming attached, but when Lady X writes of a forbidden tryst between Tabitha and Colin Brooks, the earl of Harcourt, everything changes. Now Tabitha must choose between her reputation and her desire to remain unattached.

Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 2 No 6 November December 1978 written by Agatha Christie and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 Number 6 of The Mystery Fancier, November-December 1978, contains: "Behind the Scenes at Bouchercon 9: or, It Was Murder at the Bismark!" by Mary Ann Grochowski, "Miss Marple She Isn't," by David H. Doerrer, "Agatha Christie Is Still Alive and Well," by Amnon Kabatchnik, "When Is This Stiff Dead? Detective Stories and Definitions of Death," by Thompson and Banks, "The Weevil in the Beancurd: Or, The Cop Abroad," by George N. Dove, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga: Part X," by Guy M. Townsend.

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Characters written by Elaine M. McGirr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-Century Characters offers a concise introduction to the eighteenth century, using characters as its starting point. Elaine M. McGirr presents contextualized readings of stock characters from canonical and popular literature, such as: - The rake and the fop - The country gentleman - The good woman - The coquette and the prude - The country maid and the town lady - The Catholic, the Protestant and the British Other. Each chapter explores how a character's significance and role changes over the century, illustrating and explaining radical shifts in taste, ideology and style. Also featuring illustrations, a Chronology and a helpful Bibliography and Further Reading section, this essential guide will provide students with the necessary background to understand the period's literature and to embark on further study.

Download or read book The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama written by Kristina Straub and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660–1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700–1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760–1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period’s dramatic landscape—from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle—The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike.

Download or read book Everything a Rogue Desires written by Dawn Brower and published by Monarchal Glenn Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bundled together for the first time! FOUR first in series books by DAWN BROWER A Flawed Jewel: Pieretta boards a ship, unaware that Thor is waiting to kidnap her for revenge against her grandfather. Will love intervene, altering both their courses? Saved by My Blackguard: Together Paul and Evelyn rely on each other to survive the raging storm, villainous pirates, and a little bit of culture shock. Can they get past each other’s differences and learn to trust each other and find love. Forever My Earl: Hannah Knight dreams of a happy-ever-after in the arms of the man she loves, but war has kept them apart. Garrick, the Earl of Manchester returns home; however, love is the last thing on his mind. Can two lost souls find their way back to each other? When an Earl Turns Wicked: Jonas Parker, the Earl of Harrington has no intention of ever marrying. He enjoys living unencumbered by the responsibility of a family and has been on his own since he was a young man. Nothing will alter the course he’s set for himself. Lady Marian Lindsay wants to be a physician and she’ll do whatever it takes to accomplish her goal, even coerce one of her father’s young compatriots into taking her to a house party. Propriety must be met at all costs because Jonas refuses to be wed at the end of Marian’s expedition…