Download or read book Calixta The Vanquishers of Alhambra written by Omayra Vélez and published by Omayra Velez. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Calixta Harlow Carlyle, and the devil is after me. One day like any other, a man killed me mercilessly. Then I woke up in the antechamber of heaven, where I met the embodiments of Virtues and the Keepers of Magic. Those devious Virtues gave me magic and sent me back to the Kingdom of Alhambra, When I returned to life a few days later, a devil of a man named Jadro started looking for me. He wants me dead. Why? I honestly do not know. The wretched man found me and killed some of my workers, setting my home on fire—a horrible sight to see the blood of my dear employees flowing on the marble floors of my home. Now, I am running for my life with three of my closest friends, and I found this so-called First Vanquisher, Lord Ashton Dreyden. He must train me to be a Vanquisher, but I hate him. Lord Dreyden is a hypocrite. I want to roast him alive with my fire magic. My friends keep dying, and I want to run away with the ones I have left. Oh, but where can I live with an undesirable trade? Death owns me, the devil is chasing me, and I have magic I don’t know how to use in a world engulfed by evil. I must learn to use my magic and unite with the other two Vanquishers to stop this war of genocide from taking over Alhambra. Can life get any worse? “I own you, Calixta, and I can make your life a lot worse,” said Jadro. Author’s Note: This is a grimdark but sexy fantasy. The first in a series, and it ends on a cliffhanger. For a list of CW, please visit the author’s website. omayra-velez.com
Download or read book The Grotesque Farce of Mr Punch the Cuckold written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may well be the sheer virtuosity of its writing that has deprived English audiences hitherto of an opportunity to appreciate Los cuernos de Don Friolera . This comic masterpiece by Spain's most innovative modern dramatist provides a provocatively sardonic treatment of marital infidelity and honourable revenge.
Download or read book Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin s Short Fiction written by Allen F. Stein and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction offers close readings of some thirty stories - Chopin's most significant short works - the majority of which have never received analytical scrutiny. These works, predominantly grim, portray the difficulties women confront as they seek autonomy in a social framework that typically constrains them whether they are married, in the midst of courtship, or seeking to live independently. This groundbreaking book makes it apparent that Chopin's short fiction is no less significant than her famous novel, The Awakening, and that her stories also provide a valuable context for that work.
Download or read book Kate Chopin in the Twenty First Century written by Heather Ostman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century update Chopin scholarship, creating pathways, both broad and narrow, for study in a new century. Given Chopin’s atypical literary career and her frequent writing about unconventional themes for her time—such as divorce, infidelity, and suicide—she may have approved such approaches as the essays here suggest. This collection of essays offers readers newer ways of thinking about Chopin’s works. They break away from the familiar trends of the feminist considerations of her work, ranging from her short stories, to her lesser-known novel, At Fault, to her best-known work, The Awakening. Part one introduces interdisciplinary themes for reading “culture” in Chopin, including urban living and theatre as a lens for viewing New Orleans’s social and class stratifications; the importance of music—a central interest of Chopin’s—in her texts; and the cultural relevance of Vogue magazine, where eighteen of Chopin’s stories were first published. Part two identifies important and overlapping concerns of religion, race, class, and gender within the contexts of selected short works. And part three offers fresh readings of The Awakening, using the lens of race, as well as the lens of class to reconsider protagonist Edna Pontellier’s transformation and her dependency upon the “rights” of privilege within a specific cultural context. Together, all of the essays in the collection, by both established and newer scholars, help to usher Chopin’s work into the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Becoming Cajun Becoming American written by Maria Hebert-Leiter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, presents an excellent and unique introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature, exploring how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, Hebert-Leiter examination includes the fiction of Kate Chopin and Ernest Gaines, James Lee Burkes Dave Robicheaux detective novels, and additional writings by Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and others. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians path towards assimilation. Combining her study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history, the author offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by the Acadians, who came to be known as Cajuns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book For Warriors written by Omayra Vélez and published by Omayra Velez. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here I am again, fighting for my life. You already know me. I used to be Madame Calixta Harlow Carlyle, the exotic prostitute of Talbert, but I am not anymore. Now, I am married to a Marquess and have accepted my position as the third Vanquisher of Alhambra. Things are getting from bad to worse in the Kingdom of Alhambra. My husband Dreyden and I destroyed the demon Nartago, but crafty Jadro must have another wretched monster lined up. After the fight, we decided to stay in Elijah's village so I could give birth to my child. But now that my daughter is born, we must keep moving to the Fort of Marr. We are so close, and yet so far. I'm Alesha. I used to be a prostitute, but now I am a huntress. I murdered my brother, and I'm not sorry. That bastard raped me, and he had to die. He will never hurt me again. But now I must run fast and get to the train station to catch up with Calixta and the others. OH, NO! I can see them boarding the train. "Wait for me!" shouted Alesha. The train pulled away. Alesha ran behind it. But the train picked up speed, and she stayed behind in the city of Nhava. "I will find them," said Alesha. But something worse than being left behind happened to her; Lord Shedfield, her first client and lover, found her on the train platform. He noticed she had changed her Trade Tattoo. "I am going to jail and maybe end up on the gallows for sure," said Alesha. I am Gálida, the elf and second Vanquisher of Alhambra, and I am dying in the dungeons of the Fort of Marr. My people and I are locked in cocoons made to help us cure our injuries, but now they are our coffins. We are encased in perpetual sleep. We were gullible, and Jadro cursed us. Oh, but today, in the depth of my sleep, I can hear the steps of one that can break our curse. The one walks stealthily through the halls and searches for something not his to take. Could it be a thief or a hero? I am Evelin, and you don't know me yet! I am water, wolf, and wind. I will kill Calixta one way or another. "Not if I kill her first," said Jadro. Please visit the Author's website for the CW.
Download or read book Major Characters in American Fiction written by Jack Salzman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 1591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.
Download or read book Writing Out of Place written by Judith Fetterley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. In their approach to these writers, Fetterley and Pryse offer contemporary readers an alternative vantage point from which to consider questions of regions and regionalism in the global economy of our own time."--Jacket.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Kate Chopin s The Storm written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Kate Chopin's "The Storm," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Walk the Web Lightly written by Mary Pascual and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naya’s family is all about heritage: their art, their traditions, their secret ability to see time. They expect her to follow in their footsteps, creating art and keeping their powers concealed. But she wants to be a doctor—and you can’t do that if you’re hiding all the time! When a chance to go to medical science camp comes up, her family disapproves, but Grandmother challenges her to a contest: if she can weave her soul wrap before the camp begins, she can go; if she fails, she has to say good-bye to her science dreams for good. With all of the knowledge of time at her fingertips, Naya is sure she can win. But someone is rigging events to learn her family’s secrets—and it turns out that what she doesn’t know could jeopardize everyone she loves.
Download or read book I m No Angel written by Ellen Tremper and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why there are so many "dumb blonde" jokes--always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the"flaxen Saxon" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra--about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon--and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing field for women and men had leveled considerably. But how did the fairy-tale blonde, that placid, pliant girl, become the "tomato upstair," as Monroe styled herself in The Seven Year Itch? In I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film, Ellen Tremper shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the changes in real women's lives. As she demonstrates, through these novels and performances, fair hair and its traditional attributes--patience, pliancy, endurance, and innocence--suffered a deliberate alienation, which both reflected and enhanced women's personal and social freedoms essential to the evolution of modernity. From fiction to film, the active, desiring, and sometimes difficult women who disobeyed, manipulated, and thwarted their fellow characters mimicked and furthered women's growing power in the world. The author concludes with an overview of the various roles of the blonde in film from the 1960s to the present and speculates about the possible end of blond dominance. An engaging and lively read, I'm No Angel will appeal to a general audience interested in literary and cinematic representations of the blonde, as well as to scholars in Victorian, women's, and film studies.
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Download or read book An Escape to Reality written by Nats Hargreaves and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An Escape to Reality’ follows the story of Young one after the murder of her father and brothers. When her mother was forced to give birth Young one was sent to live under the guidance of the King. After the king attempts to force marriage upon Young one, she flees with the company of her best friend in order to join the resistance to fight back. Follow Young one’s journey to seek who she really is.
Download or read book Burn the World written by A.G.V. McPherson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s time for the world to feel the fire of a Dark Elf’s heart." Shaken and scarred from their deadly encounter with the Dark Elves, Mara and Silmanus embark on a journey south to the Dark Elf kingdom, Vanaria, in an effort to halt whatever plot the Dark Elves have set in motion. Accompanied only by a group of trusted friends, they will have to rely on skill, wits, and shaky alliances if they are to overcome the inescapable dangers and grievous trials of their quest. “You’re a pirate,” Mara said flatly. “And you’re an outlaw,” Calixta retorted. Meanwhile, after their harrowing escape from the Dark Elf cells, Jeddo, Amber, and their fellow escaped prisoners wait restlessly in Fort Vanguard to warn the Fire Dwarves of Pyradia about the Dark Elves and to rescue a friend left behind. But the horrors of the Dark Elf prisons have yet to fade, a grim reality Amber and Jeddo must face as a series of unforeseeable events pushes them down a path they do not want to travel. Jeddo’s stomach started to twist as he realized what had to be done, bile burning its way up his throat behind his pounding heart. As the pieces of the Dark Elves' deadly puzzle finally click into place, a desperate race to stop their cataclysmic plan begins. The four adventurers will be pushed to their limits as they are forced to take the fate of Aeternerras into their hands. And if they fail, the world will burn.
Download or read book The Crimson Skew written by S. E. Grove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling conclusion to S. E. Grove's New York Times–bestselling Mapmakers Trilogy—a historical, fantastical adventure perfect for fans of Philip Pullman! It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing parents. Now she is aboard ship, with a hard-earned, cryptic map that may help her find them at long last. But her homecoming is anything but peaceful. Threatening clouds hang over New Orleans harbor. Sinkholes have been opening in Boston, swallowing parts of the city whole. Rogue weirwinds tear up the Baldlands. Worst of all, New Occident is at war, led by a prime minister who will do anything to expand the country westward. He has blackmailed Sophia’s beloved uncle Shadrack into drawing the battle maps that will lead countless men and boys—including Sophia’s best friend, Theo—to their deaths. As Sophia puzzles out her next move, Shadrack is peeling back layers of government intrigue, and Theo is bracing himself to fight. A red fog of war is rising, and New Occident’s future hangs in the balance . . . * "A triumphant conclusion to a prodigious feat of storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review * "A sharply creative, engrossing trilogy . . . Grove's imaginative world building continues to dazzle in this third entry . . . An enormously satisfying wrap-up."--BCCB, starred review
Download or read book The Cinema of Sara G mez written by Susan Lord and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1960s until her untimely death in 1974, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez engaged directly and courageously with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations promised by the Cuban Revolution. Gómez directed numerous documentary films in 10 prolific years. She also made De cierta manera (One way or another), her only feature-length film. Her films navigate complex experiences of social class, race, and gender by reframing revolutionary citizenship, cultural memory, and political value. Not only have her inventive strategies become foundational to new Cuban cinema and feminist film culture, but they also continue to inspire media artists today who deal with issues of identity and difference. The Cinema of Sara Gómez assembles history, criticism, biography, methodology, and theory of Gómez's work in scholarly writing; interviews with friends and collaborators; the film script of De cierta manera; and a detailed and complete filmography. Featuring striking images, this anthology reorients how we tell Cuban cinema history and how we think about the intersections of race, gender, and revolution. By addressing Gómez's entire body of work, The Cinema of Sara Gómez unpacks her complex life and gives weight to her groundbreaking cinema.
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