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Author: Rose Macaulay Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 144820352X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Rose Macaulay was one of the most popular satirical novelists of her day. In this lively, anecdotal collection, she turns her admittedly opinionated attention to life's random, and largely unrecorded, pleasures. From astronomy to new cars, church-going to the turtles in Hyde Park, she never fails to delight and amuse with her sure philosophical sense, sharp wit, and unerring eye for life's subtle ironies. "How true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavor of bitterness, the flaw in their perfections . . . which tang their sweetness and remind us of their mortality and our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect."
Author: Rose Macaulay Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 144820352X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Rose Macaulay was one of the most popular satirical novelists of her day. In this lively, anecdotal collection, she turns her admittedly opinionated attention to life's random, and largely unrecorded, pleasures. From astronomy to new cars, church-going to the turtles in Hyde Park, she never fails to delight and amuse with her sure philosophical sense, sharp wit, and unerring eye for life's subtle ironies. "How true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavor of bitterness, the flaw in their perfections . . . which tang their sweetness and remind us of their mortality and our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect."
Author: Rose Macaulay Publisher: Handheld Classics ISBN: 9781912766505 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects include: - Bed (Getting Into It) - Booksellers Catalogues - Christmas Morning - Driving a Car - Flattery - Heresies - Not Going to Parties - Shopping Abroad - Writing While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
Author: Janelle Denison Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1459264150 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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BLAZE Red-hot reads from Temptation! She was so sexy! Grey Nichols wanted a lover, not a wife. But after he met beautiful Mariah Stevens, he couldn't get her out of his mind. Lucky for him, she wasn't out of his bed much, either! He was so captivated by her, he considered the unspeakable—asking Mariah to move in with him. He was so sexy! Mariah Stevens wanted a husband, not a lover. No matter how incredible the nights were with Grey, she needed more. So she gave him an ultimatum—no more private pleasures without a public ceremony. Now all she had to do was keep her end of the bargain….
Author: Bertrice Small Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101210419 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 276
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With her renowned, sizzling sensuality, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small reveals the wonderful power of surrendering to our deepest desires… Nora Buckley’s worst nightmare has just come true. After years of being a devoted, dutiful housewife, she’s found out her husband is leaving her for a younger woman. Her only comfort comes from her friends—the women of Ansley Court, who meet every Monday morning for coffee and gossip. Seeing Nora’s desperation, her friends decide it’s time to let her in on a secret. It's a way she can enter a new world of erotic adventure, and unleash passions she never dared to dream of. With a new man in her life--more commanding and sexually knowing than her husband ever was--Nora realizes she can have everything she ever wanted. But abandon can be a dangerous game, and she’ll soon learn the truth of the old saying: be careful what you wish for… “If you loved Fifty Shades of Grey, you will adore Private Pleasures."– Thea Devine, author of His Little Black Book
Author: Ladelle McWhorter Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253213259 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 288
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Sexual identities are dangerous, Michel Foucault tells us. Categories of desire harden into stereotypes by which the forces of normalization hold us and judge us. In Bodies and Pleasures, Ladelle McWhorter reads Foucault from an original and personal angle, motivated by the differences this experience has made in her life. At the same time, her analysis advances discussion of key issues in Foucault scholarship: the genealogical critique, the status of the subject and humanism, essentialism versus social construction, and the relationships between identity, community, and political action. Weaving her own experience of coming to grips with her lesbian sexual identity into her readings of Foucault's most recent writings on sexuality and power, McWhorter argues compellingly that Foucault's texts should be read less for the arguments they advance and more for their transformative effect. By exploring bodies and pleasures—gardening, line dancing, or doing philosophy, for example—McWhorter shows that it isn't necessary to conform with socially recognized sexual identities. Bodies and Pleasures takes the reader beyond unexplored norms and imposed identities as it points the way toward a personal politics, ethics, and style that challenges our sexual selves.
Author: Rachel Spronk Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 085745479X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 322
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Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.
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