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Book The Undoing of a Libertine

Download or read book The Undoing of a Libertine written by Raine Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Libertine...Jeremy Greymont certainly qualifies. 'Sex rough and women loose' is his credo—one he's always taken very seriously, with no deference whatsoever to the society into which he's been born. He's been perfectly content milling along through life on an existence of courtesans and fine Scotch whisky...that is until his grandfather lets him know he's out of time, and his station in life comes with duties attached. Jeremy must produce an heir—posthaste. Lucky for him, the lovely Georgina is the perfect answer to his predicament and intrigues him like no other woman before her.Jeremy can't wait to make her his lady, and begin working on creating that heir he needs so badly. He's even willing to tone down his preference for the wild romps he's always enjoyed in the bed chamber, just for her sake. There will be plenty of time to teach his innocent bride all about that after the wedding, right? No, not even close. Georgina's demons trump Jeremy's in so many ways. A brutal assault has left her wounded and vowing she can be wife to no man—not even Jeremy Greymont. What is a libertine to do?“Georgina...I am so entangled in thoughts of you I could not find my way out if ever I desired.” JEREMY GREYMONT

Book The Undoing of a Libertine

Download or read book The Undoing of a Libertine written by Raine Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-serving libertine Jeremy Greymont likes his sex on the rough side and his women anonymous. Perfectly content milling along through life on an existence of courtesans and fine Scotch whisky, Jeremy has a naughty past and his own demons to contend with, but he's run out of time with his grandfather regardless. Jeremy needs an heir-posthaste. The lovely Georgina seems like the perfect answer to his predicament and intrigues him like no woman ever before. Jeremy can't wait to get started on the baby-making and is even willing to tone down his preference for the wild romps he's always enjoyed. There's always time to teach her about that later, right? But Georgina's demons trump Jeremy's in so many ways. A brutal assault has left her damaged and vowing she can be wife to no man-not even Jeremy Greymont. What is a libertine to do?

Book The Undoing of a Libertine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raine Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-03-27
  • ISBN : 9781942095354
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Undoing of a Libertine written by Raine Miller and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Resurrection of the Body

Download or read book The Resurrection of the Body written by Armando Maggi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his notorious final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini’s homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.

Book Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

Download or read book Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature written by Jeremy Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.

Book Libertine Strategies

Download or read book Libertine Strategies written by Joan E. DeJean and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the development of the French novel

Book The Undoing of a Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Cornick
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2009-08-01
  • ISBN : 1426837542
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book The Undoing of a Lady written by Nicola Cornick and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courting scandal since girlhood, free-spirited Lady Elizabeth Scarlet vows there is just one way to save her childhood friend from a loveless marriage: to kidnap him! But Nathaniel is furious. So angry that he challenges her to take their assignation to its natural conclusion and seduce him. When her inexperienced attempt flares into intense passion, Lizzie is ruined…and hopelessly, unexpectedly, in love with Nathaniel, the Earl of Waterhouse. Now the wild and willful Lizzie must convince Nat that they are a perfect match—in every way.

Book Rereading Aphra Behn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heidi Hutner
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780813914435
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Rereading Aphra Behn written by Heidi Hutner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman to earn her living from writing. This collection of critical essays explores the different genres in Behn's canon, including her plays, criticism, fiction and poetry, from a wide variety of feminist theoretical approaches.

Book Dangerous Women  Libertine Epicures  and the Rise of Sensibility  1670 1730

Download or read book Dangerous Women Libertine Epicures and the Rise of Sensibility 1670 1730 written by Laura Linker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. Linker argues that this figure, partially inspired by Epicurean ideas found in Lucretius's De rerum natura, interrogates gender roles and assumptions and emerges as a source of considerable tension during the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. Witty and rebellious, the female libertine becomes a frequent satiric target because of her transgressive sexuality. As a result of negative portrayals of lady libertines, women writers begin to associate their libertine heroines with the pathos figures they read in French texts of sensibilité. Beginning with a discussion of Charles II's mistresses, Linker shows that these women continue to serve as models for the female libertine in literature long after their "reigns" at court ended. Her study places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical, and literary contexts and suggests new ways of considering women's participation and the early novel, which prominently features female libertines as heroines of sensibility.

Book Libertine s Kiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith James
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2010-08-01
  • ISBN : 1426864116
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Libertine s Kiss written by Judith James and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his cavalier father at a young age, William de Veres grew up knowing precious little happiness. But William has put the past firmly behind him and as a military hero and noted rake, he rises fast in the ranks of the hedonistic Restoration court. Though not before he is forced to seek shelter from a charming young Puritan woman… The civil wars have cost the once-high-spirited Elizabeth Walters her best friend and her father, leaving her unprotected and alone. She flees an unwanted marriage, seeking safe haven, but what she finds is something she never expected. When her kindness and her beauty bring her to the attention of William, and then the king, she will have a choice to make. After all, can a notorious libertine really be capable of love?

Book Mozart s Don Giovanni

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486249445
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Mozart s Don Giovanni written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Giovanni has been called the greatest opera ever composed, an almost perfect work. Along with "Aida," "La Boheme," and "Carmen," Mozart's masterpiece is one of the most often performed operas. The work is so admired that when the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was asked which of his own operas he liked best, Rossini unhesitatingly replied, ""Don Giovanni."" This Dover edition contains the standard Italian libretto of "Don Giovanni," side by side with a complete new English translation. Convenient and portable, it also includes an informative Introduction, a complete List of Characters, and an easy-to-follow Plot Summary. All repeats are given in full, so you can follow the text as it is sung, without losing your place. With this inexpensive, handy guide, opera lovers can appreciate every word of Mozart's brilliant comic drama in the original Italian or in modern English. An ideal companion for reading along with a recording, a broadcast, or at the performance itself, this superb volume is a first-rate aid to enjoyment of one of the world's most celebrated operas. "

Book Eyes Wide Open

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raine Miller
  • Publisher : Raine Miller Deutsche
  • Release : 2020-12-31
  • ISBN : 9781942095170
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Eyes Wide Open written by Raine Miller and published by Raine Miller Deutsche. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 120 Days of Sodom

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  • Author : Marquis de Sade
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-02-18
  • ISBN : 1625585985
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book 120 Days of Sodom written by Marquis de Sade and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.

Book Early Women Dramatists 1550   1801

Download or read book Early Women Dramatists 1550 1801 written by Margarete Rubik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary tradition.

Book The Libertine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Shadwell
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-11-12
  • ISBN : 9780260916747
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Libertine written by Thomas Shadwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Libertine: A Tragedy; Acted by His Royal Highness's Servants Then by the About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book His Perfect Passion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raine Miller
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-04-20
  • ISBN : 9781484079836
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book His Perfect Passion written by Raine Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darius Rourke has long desired the beautiful and mysterious Marianne, seizing the opportunity to claim her when her family falls on hard times. Darius intuitively understands Marianne's need for direction and is willing to do anything to be the one to give it to her. What he doesn't know is that submission is security for Marianne, helping her to cope with a sin from her past. The wedding night confirms his virgin bride is the passionate woman Darius always dreamed she would be, but the more entangled they become, the harder it is for Darius to play the role of 'master,' for ultimately it will never give him that which he wants most of all—Marianne's love. A confrontation is due for Darius and Marianne who must both face the fears and painful secrets threatening to destroy their fragile love, their future together, and the perfect passion they both crave.

Book The History of Tom Jones

Download or read book The History of Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: