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Author: Jane Lark Publisher: ISBN: 9781520271774 Category : Languages : en Pages : 156
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Jealousy and longing are cruel emotions when the woman you crave is your friend's. But there is disloyalty; then there is love...Harry Webster has coveted his friend's fianc�e for months; then their engagement ends and he finally has a chance to pursue his interest. But how can Harry earn Emily's trust when her heart has been broken?Emily's beliefs are bruised and battered, but she has learned her lesson--she will not betroth herself to another man like Peter--she will never be used again. Including the free prequel Novella, The Jealous Love of a ScoundrelHow do you fight a calling that comes from your soul? A battle between what the heart wants and what society calls for. A story that is not about will he but about the internal torment a decision drags Lord Peter Brooke through.Lillian is in love with her charming protector. He brings her gifts and gives himself to her at night, but she knows nothing of his days. Emily is excited, hopeful and expectant, waiting on the moment that everything seems to be leading towards, when Peter will proposal. Peter is torn his soul is being torn in two. His mind wants one thing yet what about his heart does that matter at all?
Author: Jane Lark Publisher: ISBN: 9781520271774 Category : Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
Jealousy and longing are cruel emotions when the woman you crave is your friend's. But there is disloyalty; then there is love...Harry Webster has coveted his friend's fianc�e for months; then their engagement ends and he finally has a chance to pursue his interest. But how can Harry earn Emily's trust when her heart has been broken?Emily's beliefs are bruised and battered, but she has learned her lesson--she will not betroth herself to another man like Peter--she will never be used again. Including the free prequel Novella, The Jealous Love of a ScoundrelHow do you fight a calling that comes from your soul? A battle between what the heart wants and what society calls for. A story that is not about will he but about the internal torment a decision drags Lord Peter Brooke through.Lillian is in love with her charming protector. He brings her gifts and gives himself to her at night, but she knows nothing of his days. Emily is excited, hopeful and expectant, waiting on the moment that everything seems to be leading towards, when Peter will proposal. Peter is torn his soul is being torn in two. His mind wants one thing yet what about his heart does that matter at all?
Author: Jane Lark Publisher: ISBN: 9781370140473 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"An addictive and original historical romance series" Jolliffe"Compelling Historical Romance" Book GannetNow with a free additional novellaHow do you fight a calling that comes from your soul?"I love Jane Lark's way of telling stories from a very different view"Lillian is in love with her charming protector. He brings her gifts and gives himself to her at night, but she knows nothing of his days; all she knows is that with Peter visiting her she is happier than she has ever been. The way he touches her and treats her is so different from other men.Emily is excited, hopeful and expectant, waiting on the moment that everything seems to be leading towards. Lord Peter Brooke has courted her for a year; she is awaiting his proposal, certain it will come very soon, and everything he does indicates that it will.Peter is torn; his soul is seeking one thing, but his mind wants another, and what about his heart? Where does his heart lie?
Author: Jane Lark Publisher: ISBN: 9781370515745 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"Pure, unadulterated romance." Best Chick Lit.comA new novella in Jane Lark's Kindle best-selling Regency romance seriesThe Persuasive Love of a LibertineJealousy and longing are cruel emotions when the woman you crave is your friend's.But there is disloyalty; then there is love...Harry Webster has coveted his friend's fiancée for months; then their engagement ends and he finally has a chance to pursue his interest. But how can Harry earn Emily's trust when her heart has been broken?Emily's beliefs are bruised and battered, but she has learned her lesson--she will not betroth herself to another man like Peter--she will never be used again.
Author: Michel Delon Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0789211475 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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A delightfully illustrated literary anthology that explores the fantasies, seductions, and intrigues of the eighteenth-century French lover This sumptuous volume presents more than eighty selections from eighteenth-century French literature, each concerning some facet of the game of love as practiced by the libertine, or the freethinking aristocratic hedonist, a type that flourished—not least in literature—in the declining years of the Ancien Régime. These pieces, which include fiction, drama, verse, essays, and letters, are the work of some sixty writers, both familiar—such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and, of course, the Marquis de Sade—and lesser-known. Each selection is illustrated by well-chosen period artworks, many rarely seen, by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and numerous others. Racy, thought-provoking, and a treat for the eyes, The Libertine is the perfect gift for litterateurs, art lovers, roués, and coquettes.
Author: Michel Feher Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1400
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Irresistibly charming or shamelessly deceitful, remarkably persuasive or uselessly verbose, everything one loves to hate — or hates to love — about “French lovers” and their self-styled reputation can be traced to eighteenth-century libertine novels. Obsessed with strategies of seduction, endlessly speculating about the motives and goals of lovers, the idle aristocrats who populate these novels are exclusively preoccupied with their erotic lives. Deprived of other battlefields in which to fulfill their thirst for glory, libertine noblemen seek to conquer the women of their class without falling into the trap of love, while their female prey attempt to enjoy the pleasures of love without sacrificing their honor. Yet, in spite of the licentious mores of the declining Old Regime, men and women are still expected to pay lip service to an austere code of morals. Asked to constantly denounce their own practices, they find that their erotic war games are thus governed by a double constraint: whatever they feel or intend, the heroes of libertine literature can neither say what they mean nor mean what they say. The Libertine Reader includes all the varieties of libertine strategies: from the successful cunning of Mme de T– in Denon’s No Tomorrow to the ill-fated genius of Mme Merteuil in Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons; from the laborious sentimental education of Meilcour in Crébillon fils’s Wayward Head and Heart to the hazardous master plan of the French ambassador in Prévost’s The Story of a Modern Greek Woman. The discrepancies between the characters’ words and their true intentions — the libertine double entendre — are exposed through the speaking vaginas in Diderot’s Indiscreet Jewels and the wandering soul of Amanzei in Crébillon fils’s Sofa, while the contrasts between natural and civilized — or degenerate — erotics are the subjects of both Diderot’s Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage and Laclos’s On the Education of Women. Finally, Sade’s Florville and Courval shows that destiny itself is on the side of libertinism.
Author: Giovanni Vitiello Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226857921 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine’s Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Vitiello’s story unfolds chronologically, beginning with the earliest sources on homoeroticism in pre-imperial China and concluding with a look at developments in the twentieth century. Along the way, he identifies a number of recurring characters—for example, the libertine scholar, the chivalric hero, and the lustful monk—and sheds light on a set of key issues, including the social and legal boundaries that regulated sex between men, the rise of male prostitution, and the aesthetics of male beauty. Drawing on this trove of material, Vitiello presents a historical outline of changing notions of male homosexuality in China, revealing the integral part that same-sex desire has played in its culture.
Author: Yonglin Huang Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3662575752 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 222
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This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of parallel comparison. The book is a pioneering work that systematically investigates the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western popular fiction, and traces the root causes leading to the differences. By means of narrative comparison, it explores the conceptual and spiritual correlations and differences between Chinese and Western popular fiction and, by relating them to the root causes of cultural spirit, allows us to gain an insight into the cultural heritage of different nations. The book is structured in line with a cause-and-effect logical sequence and moves from the macroscopic to the microscopic, from history to reality, and from theory to practice. The integration of macro-level theoretical studies and micro-level case studies is both novel and effective. This book was awarded Second Prize at the Sixth Outstanding Achievement Awards in Scientific Research for Chinese Institutions of Higher Learning (Humanities & Social Sciences, 2013).
Author: Laura Linker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317154843 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 184
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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.
Author: Gordon D. Fulton Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773518490 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 286
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Gordon Fulton provides a fascinating new study of styles in Samuel Richardson's masterpiece, Clarissa, connecting the style the characters deploy in their speech and letters with their positions in society. Fulton argues that the novel is a critical examination of the relationship between language and power and an expression of Richardson's own understanding of social interaction as a struggle for personal pre-eminence and sexual dominance.
Author: Jane Lark
Author: Jane Lark
Author: Jane Lark
Author: Jane Lark
Author: Michel Delon
Author: Michel Feher
Author: Caroline Courtney
Author: Giovanni Vitiello
Author: Yonglin Huang
Author: Laura Linker
Author: Gordon D. Fulton