Download or read book The Romance of Violette written by Attributed to Alexander Dumas Pere and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romance of Violette written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Olympiapress.Com. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman de Violette is the tale of a beautiful girl, the object of desire for both a young man and a rather determined lesbian, culminating in a fabulous menage-a-trois. The book is attributed (on scant evidence) to Dumas, though we at Olympia at least acknowledge that the great man had nothing whatsoever to do with The Cousins.
Download or read book Perfect Match written by Violette Grey and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Johnson likes to approach life cautiously. Thirty years old and starting her fourth year of teaching, she is all about playing by the rules. All she needs now is to find someone as calm and collective as she is--her perfect match.Alice Crombly lives life on the edge, testing boundaries and doing whatever she can to push herself and others past them. As a model and ring girl, she loves being the center of attention but is looking for someone to go on the wild adventure of life with her.When Carrie goes on a date with Alice, she is transfixed not only by her beauty, but her confidence as well. And though Alice is everything she desires and more, what attracts her to Alice may be the very thing that pushes them apart.
Download or read book Violette Noziere written by Sarah Maza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.
Download or read book Warrior written by Violette Dubrinsky and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men. What she does not expect is the arrival of Vulcan Mor'an, the High King of the Northlands and the one man she despises above all, who seems to believe he is now the rightful ruler of her kingdom. Even as he provides support for his claim, Jaisyn refuses to listen. She will meet Vulcan Mor'an on the battlefield before willingly handing her kingdom to a barbarian she blames for the death of a loved one!Born to a ruthless warlord of a father, Vulcan Mor'an is powerful, fierce and quite deadly. His prowess is legendary, and those who don't fear the Northern Wolf, respect his skill on the battlefield and his reach beyond it. Vulcan prides himself on his strength, and with it, his lack of weakness. That is, until he encounters a spitfire princess intent on murdering him in his sleep. Jaisyn of Lytheria is unlike any lady Vulcan has encountered. In her golden body is a fierce adversary, a woman who does not cower in his presence like most but fights his every step with a stubbornness that both irritates and captivates him. This princess may become the one person capable of bringing him to his knees. Warrior is the tale of two feuding royals, their attraction despite their differences, and the consequences that come as a result of their union. With various obstacles threatening to tear them apart, Jaisyn St. Ives and Vulcan Mor'an struggle to keep their relationship afloat, and with it, their very lives.
Download or read book The Romance of Violette written by Anonymous and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris. The city of romance and passion ... The city of sin! Paris is the city where young nymphette Violette ends up in a hot and lustful menage à trois ... Before internet porn, before porn videos, before porn movies, people lusting for raunchy, X-rated entertainment read pornographic books and magazines. Victorian and Edwardian England had its own adult entertainment industry - countless erotic novels were put out by shady publishers, some books were printed by the authors themselves, and most of the writers were anonymous. Many of these 19th century books are surprisingly kinky, and some of them may be quite offensive to modern day readers - in more ways than one. The anonymously written "The Romance of Violette" is a great example of Victorian erotica. The author is still unknown.
Download or read book The Romance of the Violet and Other Wager Tales from Medieval France written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-stakes wager placed on a woman's virtue; men who spy on bathing women; tell-tale birthmarks; cross-dressing; dragons; tournaments; and aristocrats bursting into song--these features and more appear in the three stories translated here, all versions of the folktale known as "the wager tale." Such stories were especially popular in thirteenth-century France, when noblemen fulfilled their feudal duties far from home. Did their women remain faithful? A pressing question, for only female chastity guaranteed the legitimacy of heirs. This collection offers the first translations into English of The Romance of the Violet and The Count of Poitiers, along with a new version of The Tale of King Flore and the Fair Joan. The first paints a vivid portrait of thirteenth-century courtly life. The second, set in the eighth-century court of King Pepin, includes both a wager tale and a bride quest, the latter involving a shocking scene of female group nudity. Flore and Joan takes a different tack, presenting a clear-eyed heroine who overcomes daunting odds by posing as a man. These medieval tales portray strong women who gainsay social control of their bodies, thereby winning the respect of men--a scenario that resonates even today.
Download or read book Astrid Cane written by Anon Anonymous and published by Disruptive Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming-of-age tale about a young girl who is slowly but surely (and lingeringly) initiated into the world of womanhood, and dominatrix-dom. First trained by Lady Julia Tingle, Astrid becomes a feared and desired mistress in her own right, leading us through numerous encounters with both men and women.
Download or read book Emma and Violette Volume 1 One Dream for Three written by Jérôme Hamon and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2018-01-17T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma and Violette are sisters who share the same dream of attending Paris's most prestigious dance school. Violette passes the first audition with flying colors, but Emma doesn't, and their world comes crashing down. But there may be more than one way to dance through life... This is the revelation at the heart of the first volume of this lively and graceful narrative.
Download or read book In the Prison of Her Skin written by Violette Leduc and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logan written by Violette Paradis and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logan's public reputation is going up in flames and a fake girlfriend is just what he needs to build it back up... Riley I'm overworked, underpaid, and I haven't been laid in months. But when an opportunity arises to be hockey superstar Logan Drake's fake girlfriend, I can't say no. This is so unlike me... I don't do these kinds of things. But I would never have a chance to date him otherwise and the money is nice. Our contract says our relationship is strictly platonic. But the kisses feel so real. And deep down I wish it was something more... Logan Everyone thinks I'm a rebel, a bad boy, a guy who can't keep it in his pants... The tabloids make all their money off the disaster that is my personal life. If only they knew the real me. There's only one thing to do to get the public back on my side : put on a show. But things get too real when Riley turns out to be everything I want in a woman. She's smart, sexy, and she loves hockey. But this is all for show... right? I'm willing to risk it all to find out. ***This hockey romance novel is a part of the Seattle Blades universe. Although it's part of a series, it can be read as a standalone novel. This story has steamy scenes and an HEA.***
Download or read book Th r se and Isabelle written by Violette Leduc and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this “masterpiece on the tyranny of love” (Independent, UK). “Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse and Isabelle proves an authentic and liberating exploration of queer sensibilities, which still stands as “one of the greatest examples of French-Language erotic literature” ever written (Times Literary Supplement). Censored for half a century for its vivid depiction of budding female sexuality, this is the “dark and luminous” (Nicole Borssard) novel of two young women in the consuming and at times frightening throes of first love. Navigating their schoolgirl relationship becomes a rapturous secret, as they sneak away from repressive boundaries to go beyond the limits of friendship with “all the raw urgency of female adolescent sexuality: its energy and intensity, the push-pull of excitement, its dangers and glories” (Kate Millett, award-winning author of Sexual Politics and Mother Millett). Filmed in 1968 by Radley Metzger, starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël, Thérèse and Isabelle is finally available as it was intended to be read. “I have waited a very long time to slip back into the unexpurgated, delicious darkness with these iconic lesbian lovers” (Amber Dawn, Lambda Literary Award-winning author Sodom Road Exit).
Download or read book Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800 1930 written by Peter Mendes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').
Download or read book LGBT Victorians written by Simon Joyce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other, on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self-identification. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition. LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process, it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
Download or read book Western European Illuminated Manuscripts written by Anrdei Sterligov and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone fortunate enough to have actually held a medieval manuscript in his hands must have felt excited at this immediate contact with the past. Both famous and unknown authors wrote philosophical, natural scientific and theological treatises, romances about knights and courtly love; humanists and theologists translated and commented upon the classical literature of antiquity; travellers wrote descriptions of their incredible journeys; and ascetic chroniclers recorded and kept alive the historic events of their times for future generations.
Download or read book The Song in the Story written by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song in the Story is the first full-length examination of lyric insertions in medieval French literature. Boulton's discussion of the function of the literary device is firmly placed in the context of contemporary rhetorical theory and the literary trends of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Download or read book The art journal London written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
