Download or read book Hausfrau written by Jill Alexander Essbaum and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”—Time “A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.”—People Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it’s difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves. Praise for Hausfrau “Elegant . . . There is much to admire in Essbaum’s intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present.”—Chicago Tribune “For a first novelist, Essbaum is extraordinary because she is a poet. Her language is meticulous and resonant and daring.”—NPR’s Weekend Edition “We’re in literary territory as familiar as Anna’s name, but Essbaum makes it fresh with sharp prose and psychological insight.”—San Francisco Chronicle “This marvelously quiet book is psychologically complex and deeply intimate. . . . One of the smartest novels in recent memory.”—The Dallas Morning News “Essbaum’s poignant, shocking debut novel rivets.”—Us Weekly “A powerful, lyrical novel . . . Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary.”—The Huffington Post “Imagine Tom Perrotta’s American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zürich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy.”—New York

Download or read book The Philosophy of erotic Love written by Robert C. Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon and Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.

Download or read book Erotic Love in Sociology Philosophy and Literature written by Finn Bowring and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is 'love' taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual history of sexual love, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day. Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature shows how discourses of love have intersected with social and cultural trends, as well as with personal events and experiences. Beginning with the queering of love in Greek antiquity, it looks at how sexual love has been sung about, fictionalized and theorized as a cornerstone of the formation of Western culture. From the courtly love of twelfth-century troubadours and the rise of affective individualism in the eighteenth century, to the way the novel helped catalyze and crystallize the hopes and contradictions of love and marriage, these are decisive episodes in the history of romantic love. Lastly, the book deals with how sociologists and feminist theorists have made sense of the liberalization of sexuality over the last fifty years, especially given the post-romantic pragmatism of commercialized dating practices. Arguing against the over-rationalism of intimate life, Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature recognizes the need to liberate love from patriarchal, racist and homophobic prejudices, and highlights the value of literary and sociological traditions to emphasize how they dignify the rhapsodies and the sufferings of love.

Download or read book 300 Days of Sun written by Deborah Lawrenson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women, decades apart, are drawn into a game of truth and lies in a sunny Portuguese coastal town with a shadowy past in this mesmerizing novel. Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship and a stalled career. Faro is an enchanting town, and the seaside views are enhanced by the company of Nathan Emberlin, a charismatic younger man. But behind the crumbling facades of Moorish buildings, Joanna soon realizes, Faro has a seedy underbelly, its economy compromised by corruption and wartime spoils. And Nathan has an ulterior motive for seeking her company: he is determined to discover the truth involving a child’s kidnapping that may have taken place on this dramatic coastline over two decades ago. Joanna’s subsequent search leads her to Ian Rylands, an English expat who cryptically insists she will find answers in The Alliance, a novel written by American Esta Hartford. The book recounts an American couple’s experience in Portugal during World War II, and their entanglements both personal and professional with their German enemies. Only Rylands insists the book isn’t fiction, and as Joanna reads deeper into The Alliance, she begins to suspect that Esta Hartford’s story and Nathan Emberlin’s may indeed converge in Faro—where the past not only casts a long shadow but still exerts a very present danger. Praise for 300 Days of Sun “With its lush settings, high-stakes suspense, and novel-within-a-novel, 300 Days of Sun is a feast for fiction lovers. Lawrenson delivers a labyrinth of complex relationships the reader is both breathless to solve and eager to return to upon completion. Haunting.” —Erica Robuck, author of Hemingway’s Girl and The House of Hawthorne

Download or read book Best Erotic Romance 2014 written by Kristina Wright and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Erotic Romance 2014 is naughty and nice, combining both the heat and the sweet in a set of swoonworthy stories that showcase 2014's most anticipated erotica. Exciting names include Nikki Magennis, Victoria Blisse, Crystal Jordan, Jeanette Grey and many more.Filled with couples in every stage of love, who simply can't get enough of each other, authors capture the essence of this passionate and all-consuming lust in a number of exciting shorts. From new lovers to married couples, these luscious, heartfelt tales are layered with eroticism and emotion.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Writing Erotic Romance written by Alison Kent and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.

Download or read book The Erotic Motive in Literature written by Albert Mordell and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Erotic Romance and Domination written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of 50 Shades of Grey BDSM gained new popularity. This captivating collection of stories brings together outstanding and newly-commissioned material by some of the best authors in both the erotica and romance genres. They explore aspects of BDSM focusing on sex-positive and life-affirming scenarios that will arouse and seduce.

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Download or read book Secrets of Love written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boudoir-hopping through the centuries, author/journalist Nigel Cawthorne extends the legacy of the ancient sexual arts to a new generation with this stimulating and instructive compendium of erotic art and literature. 180 full-color illus. 20 b&w illus.

Download or read book Erotic Love in Sociology Philosophy and Literature written by Finn Bowring and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is 'love' taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual history of sexual love, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day. Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature shows how discourses of love have intersected with social and cultural trends, as well as with personal events and experiences. Beginning with the queering of love in Greek antiquity, it looks at how sexual love has been sung about, fictionalized and theorized as a cornerstone of the formation of Western culture. From the courtly love of twelfth-century troubadours and the rise of affective individualism in the eighteenth century, to the way the novel helped catalyze and crystallize the hopes and contradictions of love and marriage, these are decisive episodes in the history of romantic love. Lastly, the book deals with how sociologists and feminist theorists have made sense of the liberalization of sexuality over the last fifty years, especially given the post-romantic pragmatism of commercialized dating practices. Arguing against the over-rationalism of intimate life, Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature recognizes the need to liberate love from patriarchal, racist and homophobic prejudices, and highlights the value of literary and sociological traditions to emphasize how they dignify the rhapsodies and the sufferings of love.

Download or read book Love and Lust written by Pavan K. Varma and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think Of The Erotic Literature From India And What Immediately Comes To Mind Is Vatsyayana S Kamasutra. This Was Indeed Not The First Study In Erotology Nor Was It The Last. Beginning With The Rig Veda (Written Some 5000 Years Ago) Right Up To The Seventeenth Century, Indian Literature Is Marked By Diverse Genres Replete With Unabashed Eroticism In Which Love, Lust And Life Are Explored To Their Fullest Extent& Today, The Philosophical Acceptance Of Desire And The Erotic Sentiment Has Been Asphyxiated By A Hypocritical Morality That Has Much For Too Long Equated Sex With Sin And Desire With Guilt. The Purpose Of This Anthology Is To Provide Enough Evidence Of An Alternative Vision, So That Readers Can Get A Glimpse Of The Sense Of Maturity And Honesty That Animated Our Ancestors. In This Comprehensive Anthology, The Authors Forcefully Drive Home The Point That The Fascination With Eroticism Is Age-Old. The Absence Of Inhibition And Guilt And The Candour And Boldness With Which Society Set About Seeking Its Pl Easures Find Expression Repeatedly In Writings Over The Past Ages. The Literature Of India, Both Religious And Secular, Is Full Of Sexual Allusions, Sexual Symbolisms And Passages Of Such Frank Eroticism The Likes Of Which Are Not To Be Found Elsewhere In World Literature. For Example, Some Sections Of Ancient Texts Like The Vedas, The Upanishads, The Epics (The Mahabharata And The Ramayana), The Brahmins, The Puranas And Devotional Hymns Like The Saundarya Lahiri (By Adi Shankaracharya) Are Studded With Graphic Sexual Imagery. The Sacred And The Sensuous Were Thus Seen As Integrated Elements Of Human Existence. In This Medieval Period, Writers, Poets, Dramatists, Painters, Sculptors And Artists, Whatever Be Their Language And Idiom, Gave Full Vent To Their Creative Talents, Suffused With The Sexual Metaphor. Kalidasa And Jayadev Stand Out As Exemplars Of This Genre. It Was Basically The Evangelical Fervor Of The Victorian Era That Imposed Severe Structures On The So-Called Heathen Amorous Degradation And Sought To Cleanse The Indian People By Propagating Western Morality And Values . And The Victorian Hangover Still Persists. The Underlying Themes Of This Volume Are That, In The India Tradition, The Relevance Of Desire, With Eroticism As Its Natural Attribute, Was Pragmatically Accepted And That Women Were Given Equal Status As Men In The Pursuit Of Pleasure.

Download or read book ADULT ROMANCE 3 Sexy Stories written by Sandra Sinclair and published by Steam Books. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the burning passion of ADULT ROMANCE, a collection of three tales by Laura Lovely, Sandra Sinclair and Dara Tulen. These stories will touch your heart, your body, and your soul. This bundle includes: HER ARMY OF ONE by Laura Lovely. Sheri wasn’t much for current events until one day when she met a handsome, charming deployed soldier in an unlikely setting. Suddenly, the war has a face and Sheri is determined to do all she can do to support it. Her world could certainly use its own army of one and Paul is the perfect man for the job. DRAFTED FOR PASSION by Sandra Sinclair. As a literary agent, Christine’s first assignment is to convince writer Liam Russell to turn in two new books, and as soon as she sees him, with his disheveled appearance and his lifeless eyes, she realizes just how hard it is going to be. Christine is no quitter, however, and soon, she gets Liam to write again. What’s more, she unknowingly gets Liam to open his heart again. A SURPRISE COMES by Dara Tulen. Naia visits home with plans to tell her well meaning but conservative second-generation parents from northern Africa some surprising news: she's desperately in love with Alan, an all-American white boy. But Naia's parents have a surprise for her as well, a surprise that may radically change Naia's future and put her romance with Alan in jeopardy. WARNING: This 13,151-word compilation is a steamy read that features passionate lovemaking, explicit scenes of sexuality and might be too much for timid readers!

Download or read book Made for Love written by Alissa Nutting and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She’s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human “mind-meld,” Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she’s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs. As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron’s virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.

Download or read book Erotic Love in Literature written by Donald Furber and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Young Woman s Secret Book of Erotic Love Poems written by Barbara Farabee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons of Love written by Jolynn Raymond and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please be advised that this novel is set in a time when women had no rights, especially when it came to their husbands. The heroine is taken, and forced into marriage. As a wife, she must submit to all things. This is a period in history where men took what they wanted. It was not seen as rape, it was seen as a duty. If they refused, they could be punished. This book contains graphic sex as well as physical discipline in the form of spanking. If these things offend you, please read something else. Lessons of Love is an old fashion bodice ripper, full of passionate love scenes full of fire, and old fashioned discipline for those who refuse to obey. One with a beautiful, spirited heroine, and a dark, cruel rogue whose heart must be tamed. He takes her as his, and the battle of wills begins. One that has been fought for ages between a man who has no intention of ever feeling love, and a woman who must teach his heart to feel or be forever adrift in a life of cruelty. In 1842 Louisiana, Jolie Dupree lives an oppressive life ruled by her strict and unloving stepfather. She has the luxuries of plantation life, but feels suffocated under his watchful eye. Fate brings an abrupt change in the form of Cole Jameson, a man full of wealth but short on acceptance into society. He needs the cloak of respectability to hide behind, and silence the rumors of girls gone missing while in his company. His business of selling genteel women to rich men with unsavory tastes, must not be discovered. When he comes upon the lovely Jolie bathing in a secluded glen, he sees in her the answer to his problem. A young bride with an old family name will provide an aura of propriety. She is a girl from a suitable family, but also one who is not loved. She's perfect for his scheme. He carries her home, bound, wet, and almost bare, with a story of saved virtue, and is granted her hand in marriage. Cole is a man who has never loved and has no plans to start. He doesn't give a care for the women whose lives he shatters, but Jolie isn't just any woman. Her beauty bewitches him even as her stubborn will defies him time after time. He weds her with plans to make her an ornament on his arm and a slave in his bed. He will teach her how to please a man with a hard hand and an unfeeling heart. Will Cole be able to keep his cold heart and continue with his business of white slavery, treating his new wife as cruelly as he does all his captives? Or will Jolie's fiery spirit and beauty break through the ice that surrounds his heart and put an end to his cruel ways?