Download or read book Love s Conquest written by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Love written by Joan Conquest and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Desert Love by Joan Conquest
Download or read book Love Conquest written by Douglas Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later. Lovers, companions, and, most likely, husband and wife, Catherine and Potemkin were also close political partners, and for a time Potemkin served as Catherine's de facto co-ruler of the Russian Empire. Their letters offer an intimate glimpse into the lovers' unguarded moments, revealing both ecstatic expressions of love and candid insights on eighteenth-century politics. In February 1774, the Russian empress took Grigory Potemkin for her lover and, it is now believed, secretly married him a few months later. Particularly in the first two years of their relationship, Catherine was consumed by her passion for Potemkin. The hundreds of letters and notes she dashed off to him between assignations in the Winter Palace during this time attest to the giddy exuberance of the new love that so fully embraced her. Love and Conquest contains the most historically significant and personally revealing of these letters, only a few of which have ever before been translated into English. Beginning with Potemkin's letter to Catherine written while off fighting the Turks in 1769 and concluding with his farewell note scribbled the day before his death in 1791, the correspondence spans most of Catherine's reign. The letters are at once personal and political, private and public. Many of Catherine's love letters to Potemkin written during their stormy affair reveal the empress's passionate personality. Potemkin's letters provide rare insight into his arrogant and mercurial character, while serving to dispel the myth of Potemkin as little more than a corrupt sycophant. Love and Conquest reveals the complexity of Catherine and Potemkin's personal relationship in light of dramatic changes in matters of state, foreign relations, and military engagements. After their love cooled, Catherine and Potemkin continued to discuss and debate a wide range of state affairs in their letters, including the annexation of the Crimea, court politics, wars against the Ottoman Empire and Sweden, and the colonization of southern Russia. Together they carried out the most dramatic territorial expansion in the history of imperial Russia, transforming Catherine into a powerful world leader and creating a bond of affection that would never fully fade. Readers will find in the letters new insights on Russia's most famous empress, her passions, and her world.
Download or read book The Rogue s Conquest written by Lily Maxton and published by Entangled: Scandalous. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallflower Eleanor Townsend is not like most women. She has no interest in marriage, the ton, or fashion. Instead, her heart lies with science. And when the opportunity to present a paper arises, she takes it—even though it means dressing as a man. But her disguise doesn't quite work. Someone notices...and the brute intends to blackmail her. Former prizefighter James MacGregor wants to be a gentleman, like the men he trains in his boxing saloon. His first step is gaining a beautiful, wealthy wife. Eleanor Townsend is not that woman, but thanks to a chance encounter, she might just give him the leverage he needs. She'll gain him entry to high society and help him with his atrocious manners. In return, he won't reveal her secret. It's the perfect arrangement—at least until the sparks between them become more than just a clash of personalities. But when the attraction between them grows too strong, James must decide between his ambitions...and his heart. Each book in the Townsends series is STANDALONE: * Enchanting the Earl * The Rogue's Conquest * A Scot's Surrender * Claiming the Highlander's Heart
Download or read book The Business of Conquest written by Nicole D. Legnani and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish conquest has long been a source of polemic, ever since the early sixteenth century when Spanish jurists began theorizing the legal merits behind native dispossession in the Americas. But in The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World, Nicole D. Legnani demonstrates how the financing and partnerships behind early expeditions betray their own praxis of imperial power as a business, even as the laws of the Indies were being written. She interrogates how and why apologists of Spanish Christian empire, such as José de Acosta, found themselves justifying the Spanish conquest as little more than a joint venture between crown and church that relied on violent actors in pursuit of material profits but that nonetheless served to propagate Christianity in overseas territories. Focusing on cultural and economic factors at play, and examining not only the chroniclers of the era but also laws, contracts, theological treatises, histories, and chivalric fiction, Legnani traces the relationship between capital investment, monarchical power, and imperial scalability in the Conquest. In particular, she shows how the Christian virtue of caritas (love and charity of neighbor, and thus God) became confused with cupiditas (greed and lust), because love came to be understood as a form of wealth in the partnership between the crown and the church. In this partnership, the work of the conquistador became, ultimately, that of a traveling business agent for the Spanish empire whose excess from one venture capitalized the next. This business was thus the business of conquest, and featured entrepreneurial violence as its norm--not exception. The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of this period, including the perspectives of both the creators of the colonial world (monarchs, venture capitalists, conquerors, and officials), of religious figures (such as Las Casas), and finally of indigenous points of view to show how a venture capital model can be used to analyze the partnership between crown and church. It will appeal to students and scholars of the early modern period, Latin American colonial studies, capitalism, history, and indigenous studies.
Download or read book Nalini written by Lillian Verna McKenney and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unrequited Conquests written by Roland Greene and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love poetry dominated European literature during the Renaissance. Its attitudes, conventions, and values appeared not only in courtly settings but also in the transatlantic world, where cultures were being built, power exercised, and policies made. In this major contribution to our understanding of both the Age of Exploration and early modern lyric, Roland Greene argues that love poetry was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation. European encounters with the Americas awakened many forms of desire, which pervaded the writings of explorers like Columbus and his contemporaries. These experiences in turn shaped colonial society in Brazil, Peru, and elsewhere. The New World, while it could be explored, conquered, and exploited, could never really be "known"—leaving Europe's desire continually unrequited and the project of empire unfulfilled. Using numerous poetic examples and extensive historical documentation, Unrequited Conquests rewrites the relations between the Renaissance and colonial Latin America and between poetry and history.
Download or read book Publications written by Ballad Society and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Englishman written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daphnaida written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Provocation written by R K Knightly and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and hate. There's a fine line between them, and Nate and Leila have tested it for far too long. Nate has always tried to mask the depth of his feelings for Leila for one reason-she's his little sister's best friend and a royal pain in his ass. Leila always looked up to Nate until he became someone she wanted nothing to do with-the rich, entitled elite. If they only knew their love-hate relationship was just the beginnings of their problems. "Says the Whore of Babylon," Nate ground out. "I'm not a whore," Leila spat. "I'm...relationship challenged." "Meaning?" "Meaning that I don't waste my time on one man if I know off the bat that he and I won't work," Leila drawled, irritated. "Maybe if you gave them more than one night you'd find you were acting too hastily. Or possibly date them before f***ing them. How novel an idea that is, eh?" "Why does my sex life interest you so much?" Leila asked. "Is yours so dull that you have to snoop around mine to live vicariously through me, or do you simply enjoy demeaning women for sport? Perhaps that's why all your ex-girlfriends left you. Or maybe because your d**k's minuscule compared to your inflated ego." "At least I'm not a gaping crevasse threatening to suck in the population of the Bay Area with the gravitational pull your cavernous p***y maintains. I'm a bit concerned at my proximity to it, to be honest." "I'm done with this bulls**t." Leila slammed her drink down on the nearest flat surface before heading toward the door of the sitting room.
Download or read book The Golden Prince written by Nikki Jefford and published by Nikki Jefford. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never cross a Fae prince. And for Sky's sake, don't fall in love with one determined to ruin you. Crispin Lark Elmray is a show-off and a shameless flirt. The highborn females don't understand the game he's playing, but I do. Everything changed after he became the golden boy, protector of the crown and a powerful wielder of fire magic. Get too close and he's likely to light a faerie on fire. I made the mistake of mocking him as a child. Lark hasn't forgotten. I can see it in the wicked gleam of his eyes every time he looks my way. But that's not the worst of it. To admit the truth would burn me from the inside out before Lark ever conjured a single flame. Lark Half-elf. Half-Fae. For most of my life, the illustrious citizens of Dahlquist scorned me for being a halfling prince born into an unconventional family. The gentry would sooner sneer than curtsy . . . Until I showed them what I was capable of. Now they fawn and clamor for my favor. But I will never forget past cruelties. I will make them regret every insult to me and my family. At the top of my list is Crispin Maglen, Earl of Ashcraw. He'll always be at the top. But there's no taking him down. Not unless I fall with him. It's all getting a bit out of control. I have family squabbling over me, females flinging themselves into my arms, assassins and kidnappers trying to take me down . . . And don't get me started on the monster in the forest. --- The Golden Prince is an enemies to lovers, slow burn, M/M romance filled with humor, adventure, steam, and magical creatures. Don't miss the bloopers at the end of the book! Complete, standalone novella. Can be read on its own. Second generation, Royal Conquest Saga heirs. Perfect for fans of the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell.
Download or read book Life and Light for Woman written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keys to Love written by S. J. Frost and published by ManLove Romance Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two years, Julian Forrester's been playing keyboards and piano for Conquest. Having left behind a classical career, he's reached a level of fame like he's never dreamed. But fame and fortune can't bring him the one thing he wants most; love. Morgan Chandler spent years teaching students to love music until budget cuts forced him out of a job. With family debts rising, Morgan accepts a job as a roadie for Conquest. He thinks he'll hate it with one exception -- he'll be close to Julian. Can the two find the right music together that will lead them to the Keys to Love?
Download or read book The Cord written by Cynthia Leavelle and published by CrossBooks Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rahab, a former prostitute, has been saved by the Israelite Salmon from the horrible destruction of Jericho, using a scarlet cord that once belonged to his mother. But Rahab is shocked when her trusted hero takes her into his tent, using the law regarding a captive woman. According to the law, Rahab must spend thirty days in Salmon's tent. They are not allowed to sleep together, but they can talk. Although Rahab's past relationships make her want nothing to do with men anymore, she wants to learn everything she can about the God of the Israelites, who has seen fit to spare her life. Salmon hopes that in their conversations about God's law, she will learn to care for him. Surprisingly, he realizes that he has been the learner in the situation, beginning to see his God in different, more illuminated ways. Not until a crisis comes in their relationship does Rahab realize how entwined their lives have become. The Cord is a love story between God and man and between man and woman. Rahab and Salmon learn to love God and each other in ways neither thought possible.
Download or read book The Spenser of His Age written by Phineas Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
