Download or read book A Fine Woman written by David George Richards and published by Booksandstories.com. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Taylor of the US Army has met Helga only once. But that meeting and everything he learns about her afterwards plants a seed of love that won’t stop growing. But Helga isn't easy to find once lost. And when Captain Taylor visits a Convent in the Southern French resort of Antibes in 1948 he soon finds out that the end of the war isn’t the end of the story. But could the once traitor, spy, smuggler and Countess now really be a Nun? And will Captain Taylor finally track her down? And does she want to be found?
Download or read book Some Fine Woman written by Romelle Winters and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is a modern gentleman. She is Some Fine Woman and is rather an old-fashioned one at that, not at all “that kind of girl.” Jim Bennett tries to change Dolly Flynn’s mind and update her values to fit with the progressive world he inhabits. But the warnings of the nuns who schooled her have lasted well into middle age for Dolly. In her early sixties, she deflects Jim’s attempts to update her conservative mindset. The two meet accidentally in Concord, New Hampshire, just before Christmas. Dolly has fallen in the snow in front of a supermarket. Both are widowed. Jim, who considers himself the neighborhood senior stud, has singular designs about Dolly. He takes her out several times with the goal of bedding her, but each time something happens to prevent it. Dolly looks upon Jim as a gentleman, not realizing his intentions are not the most honorable. Can the intensity of love and intimacy reach past youth and into the twilight years, and just how are middle-aged children supposed to react to their parents’ courtship? Join Jim and Dolly as they discover that life and love in a new century are quite different from the memories they cherish and the past they respect.
Download or read book The Love of a Good Woman written by Alice Munro and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes—the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met—the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her—she must count on herself. Some choices are made—in a will, in a decision to leave home—with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus—from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
Download or read book Life and Light for Woman written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century written by J. T. Merydew and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson Women and the alphabet a series of essays written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Occidental Gleanings written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume of Occidental gleanings contains his contributions to the Cincinnati enquirer and the Cincinnati commercial; the second volume includes his articles in the New Orleans item, the New Orleans times-democrat, and three other publications for which he wrote in the eighties."--Introd.
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Download or read book The Works of Henry Fielding Plays v 5 Joseph Andrews v 6 Tom Jones pt 1 v 7 Tom Jones pt 2 v 8 Miscellanies Amelia pt 1 v 9 Miscellanies Amelia pt 2 v 10 Covent Garden Journal Voyage to Losbon etc v 11 Poems written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies written by Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And now we find seated on the throne of France a young Monarch of a strange, wild, unattractive exterior. His eye is pale, colourless and shifty, seeming to be void of all expression. He trusts no man, and has no real assurance of his power as Sovereign; he looks long and suspiciously at those about him before speaking, rarely bestows his confidence and believes himself constantly surrounded by spies. 'Tis a nervous, timid child,—'tis Charles IX. History treats him with an extreme severity; and the "St. Bartholomew" has thrown a lurid light over this unhappy Prince's figure. He allowed the massacres on the fatal nights of the 24th and 25th of August, and even shot down the flying Protestants from his palace roof. Without going into the interminable discussions of historians as to this last alleged fact, which is as strongly denied by some authorities as it is maintained by others, I am not one of those who say hard things of Charles IX. It is more a sentiment of pity I feel for him,—this monarch who loved Brantôme and Marot, and who protected Henri IV. against Catherine de Medici. I see him surrounded by brothers whom he had learned to distrust. The Due d'Alençon is on the spot, a legitimate object of detestation by reason of the subterranean intrigues he is for ever hatching against his person; while his other brother Henri (afterwards Henri III.), Catherine's favourite son, is in Poland, kept sedulously informed of every variation in the Prince's always feeble health, waiting impatiently for the hour when he must hurry back to France to secure the crown he covets. Then his sister's vicious outbreaks are a source of constant pain and anxiety to him; and last but not least there is his mother Catherine de Medici, an incubus that crushed out his very life-breath. He cannot forget the tortures his brother Francis suffered from his mysterious malady, and his premature death after a single year's reign. Catherine hated Mary Stuart, his young Queen, whose only fault was to have exaggerated in herself all the frailties together with all the physical perfections of a woman; and dreadful words had been whispered with bated breath about the Queen Mother. An Italian, deprived of all power while her husband lived, insulted by a proud and beautiful favourite, yet knowing herself well fitted for command, she had brought up her children with ideas of respect and submission to her will they were never able to throw off. The ill-will she bore her daughter-in-law was the cause of all those accusations History has listened to over readily. But Charles, a nervous, affectionate child, whose natural impulses however had been chilled by his mother's influence and the indifference of his father Henri II., was thrown back on himself, and grew up timid, suspicious and morose. The frantic love of Francis for his fascinating Queen, the cold dignity of Catherine in face of slights and cruel mortifications, her bitter disappointment during her eldest son's reign, her Italian origin (held then even more than now to imply an implacable determination to avenge all injuries), her indifference to the sudden and appalling death of the young King, the insinuations of her enemies,—all combined to make a profound impression on Charles, giving a furtive and, if we may say so, a haggard bent to his character. Presently, seated on the throne of France, Huguenots and Catholics all about him, exposed to the insults and pretensions of the Guise faction on the one hand and that of Coligny on the other, dragged now this way now that between the two, yet all the while instinctively drawn toward the Catholic side by ancestral faith and his mother's counsels no less than by reasons of state, Charles signed the fatal order authorizing the Massacre of the Saint Bartholomew.
