Download or read book Emotional Tales of Romance written by Shar Mahe and published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories you are about to read are set in diverse landscapes, from bustling cities to serene countryside, from magical realms to the heart of ordinary daily life. They span different periods and cultures, reflecting the timeless and borderless nature of love. Despite their varied settings and circumstances, each story shares a common thread: the exploration of the human heart and its boundless capacity for love. As you embark on this journey through "Emotional Tales of Romance," you will encounter characters who are vulnerable yet strong, passionate yet considerate, and ultimately, deeply human. Each story invites you to witness the myriad ways love can shape our lives, from the exhilarating highs to the heart-wrenching lows. Whether you are a hopeless romantic or a skeptical realist, these tales are bound to resonate with you in some way, offering both escape and reflection.
Download or read book Tiny Tales written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh. In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith’s beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life—painted in miniature.
Download or read book Trade and Romance written by Michael Murrin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows how these tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the aristocracy, were important to the growing mercantile class as a way to gauge their own experiences in traveling to and trading in these exotic locales. Murrin also looks at the role that growing knowledge of geography played in the writing of the creative literature of the period, tracking how accurate, or inaccurate, these writers were in depicting far-flung destinations, from Iran and the Caspian Sea all the way to the Pacific. With reference to an impressive range of major works in several languages—including the works of Marco Polo, Geoffrey Chaucer, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Luís de Camões, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and more—Murrin tracks numerous accounts by traders and merchants through the literature, first on the Silk Road, beginning in the mid-thirteenth century; then on the water route to India, Japan, and China via the Cape of Good Hope; and, finally, the overland route through Siberia to Beijing. All of these routes, originally used to exchange commodities, quickly became paths to knowledge as well, enabling information to pass, if sometimes vaguely and intermittently, between Europe and the Far East. These new tales of distant shores fired the imagination of Europe and made their way, with surprising accuracy, as Murrin shows, into the poetry of the period.
Download or read book Tales of Love written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self.
Download or read book Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion written by María de Zayas y Sotomayor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.
Download or read book Tales of Romance written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in Color written by Bolu Babalola and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.” —Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love stories from a debut author, retelling myths, folktales, and histories from around the world. A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman attempts a great leap in her company, and an even greater one in her love life. A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether she should uphold her family’s politics or be true to her heart. In her debut collection, internationally acclaimed writer Bolu Babalola retells the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology with incredible new detail and vivacity. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from long-erased places. With an eye towards decolonizing tropes inherent in our favorite tales of love, Babalola has created captivating stories that traverse across perspectives, continents, and genres. Love in Color is a celebration of romance in all its many splendid forms. “Babalola’s writing shines”—New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Love with No Tomorrow written by Mindelle Pierce and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love with No Tomorrow shares a spark of light by sharing true love stories of the Holocaust. This heart-wrenching book uses hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors and their children to present first-hand accounts of the relationships that blossomed in extermination camps, sparking hope in the darkest of times.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance written by Trisha Telep and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never forget your first time with a vampire. Whether reaquainting yourself with some of your favourite, sexy creatures of the night or getting bitten by the vampire romance phenomenon for the very first time, let the biggest and brightest names in the business help you explore your dark side. Witness the bewildering array of complex vampire codes of conduct, dark ritual and dating practices as they chat up the locals and engage in the most erotic encounters you will sink your teeth into this side of un-Death. Because vampires never really die, do they?
Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Catherine M. Roach and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
Download or read book Tales of Romance written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Romance: Based on Tales in the Book of Romance
Download or read book Hot and Steamy written by Jean Rabe and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-editor of Steampunk'd comes an all-new collection of adventure and romance amid Victorian steampunk settings. Sparks fly in these original stories of a steam-driven airship searching for a lost city, a crazy inventor in a powered wheelchair with a plot to take over the world, and a love story set in an alternate history version of America. Adventure abounds in these stories of love, loss, and danger- and there is plenty of steam!
Download or read book Love Stories written by and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love has fascinated writers since men and women first found words to express their romantic yearnings. Tales of passion, affection, and romance are a cornerstone of world literature and represent some the finest fiction ever written. Love Stories features work of some of the greatest writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who have pondered the allure and irresistibility of love. This volume’s seventeen selections reflect warmly on romantic love and its many aspects: first love and mature love, ecstatic love and poignant love, love that redeems and love that overcomes adversity, love lost and love regained. Among the stories included: “Mr. and Mrs. Dove” – Katherine Mansfield “Mammon and the Archer” – O. Henry “The Dilettante” – Edith Wharton “Traveling Companions” – Henry James “The Popular Girl” – F. Scott Fitzgerald “A Lobe-Knot” – W.W. Jacobs Whether you have a fondness for stories on the lighter side of love, or for tales full of drama and passion, Love Stories is a valentine to readers who enjoy fiction written from the heart.
Download or read book Tales of Romance Based on Tales in the Book of Romance written by Andrew Lang and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Love Is written by Diane Adams and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for any fond gift or tender moment, this story of a girl and a duckling who share a touching year together will melt hearts old and young. In this tenderly funny book, girl and duckling grow in their understanding of what it is to care for each other, discovering that love is as much about letting go as it is about holding tight. Children and parents together will adore this fond exploration of growing up while learning about the joys of love offered and love returned.
Download or read book Tales of Romance written by Anonymous and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]Tales of Romance - Anonymou[...]".
Download or read book Protecting Their Princess written by Parker Grey and published by Parker Grey. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone’s after Bianca. Too bad we’re going to claim her first - together. We served our country in an elite military unit for years, and now nothing is too hard for us - we’re rich, rough, and ripped, and we’re up for anything. So when Bianca is threatened by a mysterious but powerful stalker, we volunteer to keep the gorgeous, innocent princess safe and sound. Hidden away in a cabin, deep in the forest, she’s safe from prying eyes, and from anyone who’d want to do her harm. There’s only one thing the untouched Princess isn’t safe from - us. Her red lips, dark hair, and luscious, soft curves call to us. Bianca’s completely irresistible, and with every movement, every look, she’s practically begging us to take her. But there’s just one problem. We both want her. We both want to lick her soft skin and hear her moan our names, claim her innocence. There’s only one solution to this problem. We’re going to have to share her. Protecting Their Princess is a very dirty novella about two hard, rugged, rough men who find themselves totally obsessed with the same girl! And don’t worry - as an MFM menage, all the attention is on HER. If you’re looking for a cheesy, steamy, over-the-top dirty-but-sweet book, you’re in the right place! Keywords: Steamy romance, spicy romance, open door, virgin heroine, instalove, over the top, happily ever after, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, sexy alpha hero, sexy ebook, HEA, forbidden romance, first person, new adult, first time, dominant hero, fairy tale romance, steamy fairy tale, folk tales, fairy tale retelling, snow white, princess, playboy prince, menage romance, polyamory, two men one woman, MFM threesome, menage a trois, poly romance, three way
