Author: Robert Grant Wealleans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678171921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Marcus Antonius Crescens, born in Pompeii in the year 59, the son of a launderer & cleaner, learns to expertly embroider, sew, & weave fine repairs to clothing. From his small table in Pompeii's Forum, Marcus gives us eyewitness accounts of life in this ancient playground of the rich. He becomes a handsome, tall, young man. Young girls & noblewomen take notice. Marcus falls under the spell of the brothelkeeper & prostitution is the biggest business & a way of survival in Pompeii. Lady Celestia has a goal to make Marcus the most famous performer in the Empire at noble's private sex clubs & private parties as "Priapus the Performer." In this lusty tale, Marcus tells us of his life as a prostitute as all performers, actors & gladiators were designated & licensed. The noblewomen ply him with gold coin, fall in love with him & bear his children. Marcus meets the love of his life. The eruption of Vesuvius shatters his world. Then, an intervention! The gods rescue him & take him to the stars!
The Brothelkeeper
Author: Robert Grant Wealleans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678171921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Marcus Antonius Crescens, born in Pompeii in the year 59, the son of a launderer & cleaner, learns to expertly embroider, sew, & weave fine repairs to clothing. From his small table in Pompeii's Forum, Marcus gives us eyewitness accounts of life in this ancient playground of the rich. He becomes a handsome, tall, young man. Young girls & noblewomen take notice. Marcus falls under the spell of the brothelkeeper & prostitution is the biggest business & a way of survival in Pompeii. Lady Celestia has a goal to make Marcus the most famous performer in the Empire at noble's private sex clubs & private parties as "Priapus the Performer." In this lusty tale, Marcus tells us of his life as a prostitute as all performers, actors & gladiators were designated & licensed. The noblewomen ply him with gold coin, fall in love with him & bear his children. Marcus meets the love of his life. The eruption of Vesuvius shatters his world. Then, an intervention! The gods rescue him & take him to the stars!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678171921
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Marcus Antonius Crescens, born in Pompeii in the year 59, the son of a launderer & cleaner, learns to expertly embroider, sew, & weave fine repairs to clothing. From his small table in Pompeii's Forum, Marcus gives us eyewitness accounts of life in this ancient playground of the rich. He becomes a handsome, tall, young man. Young girls & noblewomen take notice. Marcus falls under the spell of the brothelkeeper & prostitution is the biggest business & a way of survival in Pompeii. Lady Celestia has a goal to make Marcus the most famous performer in the Empire at noble's private sex clubs & private parties as "Priapus the Performer." In this lusty tale, Marcus tells us of his life as a prostitute as all performers, actors & gladiators were designated & licensed. The noblewomen ply him with gold coin, fall in love with him & bear his children. Marcus meets the love of his life. The eruption of Vesuvius shatters his world. Then, an intervention! The gods rescue him & take him to the stars!
52 Weeks with Saint Faustina: A Year of Grace and Mercy
Author: Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
Publisher: Marian Press
ISBN: 9781596144880
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Walk with St. Faustina through the year, guided by weekly meditations written by popular author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle.
Publisher: Marian Press
ISBN: 9781596144880
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Walk with St. Faustina through the year, guided by weekly meditations written by popular author and EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle.
Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
Author: Robertson Lisa C. Robertson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474457916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474457916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Explores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped themUncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors such as Charles Dickens and George Gissing with understudied novels and essays to examine the lively literary engagement with new models of urban housing Focuses on the ways that these new homes provided material and creative space for thinking through the relationship between home and identity Identifies ways in which we might learn from the creative responses to the nineteenth-century housing crisis This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It examines visual and literary representations to explain how these innovations in housing forged opportunities for refashioning definitions of home and identity. Robertson offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which novels imaginatively and materially produce the city's built environment.
The Chap-book
Author: Herbert Stuart Stone
Publisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Count Brühl
Author: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Complete Works
Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The practical linguist ... the French language
Poet Lore
Sant' Ilario
Author: Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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A Summary of Universal History
Author: Louis-Pierre Anquetil
Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description