Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first published version of Beauty and the Beast, written by the French author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in the mid-18th century and translated by James Robinson Planch . It is a novel-length story intended for adult readers, addressing the issues of the marriage system of the day in which women had no right to choose their husband or to refuse to marry. There is also a wealth of rich back story as to how the Prince became cursed and revelations about Beauty's parentage, which fail to appear in subsequent versions of the now classic fairy tale.

Download or read book Roslyn and the Cursed Prince written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanted tower keeps her safe. But nothing can guard her against loneliness… The tower keeps Roslyn secure from those who would steal her infant daughter, as she’s protected by the magic of the village witch, Madame Mallor. She dreams of being reunited with the father of her baby, never imagining that the moment she’s longed for will complicate her life. Because Adrian has been keeping secrets. About his past. His identity. And about his cursed connection to the woman who has been guarding Roslyn. She doesn’t realize that Mallor has not been helping her out of the kindness of her heart, and that the old woman’s obsession with Roslyn and Adrian's child could destroy them all forever... Roslyn and the Cursed Prince was originally published as The Cursed Prince by Amber Jantine

Download or read book Of Beast and Beauty written by Stacey Jay and published by Ember. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Beauty became the Beast? Discover a new angle on the classic fairytale in this fantasy retelling that's perfect for anyone who can't get enough of Beauty and the Beast. In the city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra is raised to be a human sacrifice. Her death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert, a mutant beast named Gem fights to save his people, known as the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that, together, they can return balance to their worlds. When Gem is captured for trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, he becomes a prisoner of the city. Isra enlists his help, and soon begins to care for him—and to question everything she has been brought up to believe. . . . “Engrossing tale . . . [an] intense love story.” —Kirkus Reviews “The bones of the classic Beauty and the Beast story are all here, imaginatively fleshed out with tropes from science fiction, fantasy, and even political drama.” —The Bulletin, Recommended “Jay’s characters are well-realized . . . [the] setup is intriguing and her writing assured.” —Publishers Weekly “Revelations and plot twists keep the action flowing and romance growing. . . . A satisfying read for fans of romantic fantasy.” —School Library Journal

Download or read book The Cursed Princes written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Princes. One Curse. Once upon a time, an arrogant young prince angered a witch. Now, he and his brothers are cursed to transform into wolves every full moon… Ella and the Wolf Prince Ella slips through the palace garden, hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal ball and the life she used to know. Instead, she stumbles on the Prince Luke’s beastly secret. Under the light of the full moon, he transforms into a fierce wolf. She flees but doesn’t realize he’s caught her scent. And once the moon sets, the prince will hunt the woman he’s determined to make his bride… Roslyn and the Cursed Prince Hidden away in an enchanted tower, Roslyn longs to be reunited with her lover and the father of her baby girl. But Adrian’s return only complicates things. Not only is he under a fearsome curse that takes over his body every full moon, but he never told her that he’s a prince… Catherine and the Beast Prince Disguised as a man, Catherine is determined to find the missing prince, Edward. She knew that convincing him to return home would be near impossible. But she doesn’t expect the fire of passion that flares up between them, especially since she’s hiding a dark secret of her own…

Download or read book Hidden Magic written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hidden power. An alliance between ancient enemies… No one told Seira she was engaged to a dragon. That was why she fell for the lies of an imposter and nearly lost her life. Though unsure how she broke the sorcerer’s spell, doing so gained her the loyalty of a band of dread-trolls. The ancient enemies of the dragon she is meant to marry. Of course, the dragon isn’t exactly what he first appears to be either. Rergyn shifts into the most handsome man that she’s ever seen. His touch sets her body on fire, but she is not about to trust him, especially when she learns he has a few secrets of his own. Seira will need both her dragon husband and the strength of the dread-trolls behind her if she’s to secure her inheritance against those who would take it for themselves. And a little magic might help too…

Download or read book Guardian of the Mist Dragon written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save her family, Lin will defy convention—and her father—to take on the most extraordinary journey into a strange land... Stealing her father’s armor was the easy part. Now alone and confronted by mercenaries, Lin must defend a rare mist dragon’s egg. Just as she is badly wounded, a strange dragon drops out of the sky, breathing fire and scattering her enemies. Then the creature’s massive talons wrap around her body, and he carries her away… Her beauty sets his body on fire. Her stubbornness threatens to drive him mad… Dirkan abducted the injured human female for her own protection. Safely tucked away at his home, her spirit and beauty tempt him to claim her as his mate. But he has no future to offer her. He has obligations to his family that don’t include being with a human. Their bond is undeniable, and the heat threatens to burn out of control. But when the time comes to return to her land, will Lin be leaving her heart behind?

Download or read book The Crane Wife written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Kenta freed a trapped crane from a snare, a mysterious woman appears. Beautiful Yukiko insists on becoming his wife. Though he knows he can’t afford to marry, he also cannot resist the temptation to claim her as his own. His fortunes change with her arrival, and it isn’t long before he's falling in love with his strange wife, even though she refuses to share any information about her past. Yukiko has good reason to keep her secrets. Transformed from crane to human in order to repay Kenta for saving her, the magic comes with one condition: if her husband learns the truth, the spell will end and they will be forced apart. Forever. The Crane Wife is a fantasy romance based on the Japanese folktale “Tsuru Nyobo.”

Download or read book The Dragon and the Queen of Ice written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Kyra doesn’t fall in love, she will die. Blinded and cursed to freeze from the inside out, Queen Kyra knows that only falling in love might cure her. She doesn’t have time for that. As the last in her line, she must produce an heir to keep her kingdom from falling into chaos. But no human can touch her without risk of frostbite. The solution? Marry a dragon. Jodan’s fire melts the ice under her skin and soon the passion that burns between them goes beyond her need for an heir. It’s deeper than that. Addictive. But can a dragon fall in love with a human? More importantly, can Kyra fall in love with someone she’s never seen?

Download or read book The Queen s Assassin written by Jaymi Hanako and published by Jaymi Hanako. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A queen needs a consort and an heir. Not a deadly but gorgeous distraction.. Queen Raine cannot stop thinking about the assassin imprisoned in her dungeon. He's beautiful. He's dangerous. And he wants her. Madoc doesn't know she's his target. Magic allowed her to switch appearances with her bodyguard. It keeps her true identity safe from him, and from everyone plotting to take her throne. But even the most powerful spells in the land can shield her from her emotions. The assassin stirs desires and longings within her that she thought long dead. Then he makes an offer: spend one night of passion with him, and he'll tell her everything he knows about who hired him to kill her. It's a risk she shouldn't take. She can never trust him. She should kill him. Yet she can't resist him. As a shadowy conspiracy threatens Raine's hold on her crown, she will need magic--and the power of her unlikely connection with the assassin--to keep what is hers. (Author's note: This title was previously published. It has been lightly revised from its previous version.)

Download or read book When Good Geeks Go Bad written by Catherine Wilkins and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud take on early teenage life by the author of My Best Friend and Other Enemies. When Ella's dad refuses to let her have cool school shoes or stay up later than 9:30, Ella decides to take things into her own hands. Being good hasn't got her anywhere, so why not try being bad for a while? It certainly looks a lot more fun and what's a few detentions here and there? But going bad is a slippery slope and soon things are starting to spiral out of control. Can Ella get things back on track? Or is she going to end up with egg on her face? A brilliantly funny new story from Catherine Wilkins, stand-up comedian and author of the much-loved 'My Best Friend and Other Enemies' series.

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Download or read book Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television written by Karen A. Romanko and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Wonder Woman, Xena, Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and many more. Television's women of science fiction and fantasy are iconic and unforgettable yet there hasn't been a reference book devoted to them until now. Covering 400 female characters from 200 series since the 1950s, this encyclopedic work celebrates the essential contributions of women to science fiction and fantasy TV, with characters who run the gamut from superheroes, extraterrestrials and time travelers to witches, vampires and mere mortals who deal with the fantastic in their daily lives.

Download or read book When Beauty Tamed the Beast written by Eloisa James and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eloisa James’s writing is absolutely exquisite.” —New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros “Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a new novel by Eloisa James.” —New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn A wonderful spin on a much-beloved fairy tale, Eloisa James’s When Beauty Tamed the Beast is heart-soaring and fun historical romance at its finest. No wonder People magazine raves about her books, saying, “Romance writing does not get much better than this.” Eloisa’s delightful take on Beauty and the Beast unfolds in Regency England, where a beastly, bad-tempered Earl matches wits with a brazen beauty who has vowed to make the handsome grump fall in love with her in two short weeks.

Download or read book The Madwoman in the Attic written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Q. D. Leavis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queenie Dorothy Leavis was one of the best critics of the novel. Her primary interest was in the English novel in its greatest period the nineteenth-century, but she had wide interests and wrote on the American novel as well; and her anthropological view of literature caused her to ask how the novel rose and why it flourished and that occasioned her to look at European literatures. Her published essays appeared as articles or reviews of remarkable trenchancy in Scrutiny, or as lectures or introductions to editions of classic novels. They have been much read but she never collected them in her lifetime. They are here reprinted in three volumes. The whole is prefaced by her own 'A Glance Backward, 1965' concerning her life and work and there is an introduction by the editor, Professor G. Singh.

Download or read book Tarzan and the Lion Man written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Recommended!Collectors Edition!Edgar rice Burroughs is the master of science fiction fantasy! Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Tarzan the Ape man and his adventures in jungles vast ? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth's core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by April Swanson and published by April Swanson. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tale about beauty and power ... and unexpected love. When Rose flees her monstrous husband, she finds refuge in an abandoned castle. Little does she know, another monster hides behind its walls—a hideous beast, who carries a terrible secret. As Rose tries to uncover the truth about the beast, she is drawn closer to him. There, hidden from the world, she finds something unexpected: a strange and dangerous love ... BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is a dark, romantic retelling of the fairy tale classic, intended for mature readers.