Author : Cheryl Holt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101445645
The third Novel of Sensual Destiny tells the intoxicating story of an innocent lady's companion, who drinks a magical potion-and is swept into a dangerous relationship of decadent desire.
Author : Nina Lane
Publisher : Snow Queen Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1954185154
For most of her life, Lady Tasha Hall has wished for the dashing James Forester to take her in his arms and kiss her with unrestrained passion. But when she finally takes drastic measures to make James see her as more than his best friend’s little sister, her plan goes terribly awry. Seeking adventure halfway around the world, James can’t stop thinking of the beautiful Tasha...or her brazen kiss. And when he learns that her reform work has thrown her into the path of danger, nothing can keep him from returning to London to protect her. But a broken heart is not easily put back together. Will Tasha and James learn that trusting in love is the greatest adventure of all? *An earlier edition of this book was published under the name Nina Rowan by Grand Central Publishing. Historical romance fans of Stephanie Laurens and Tessa Dare will enjoy the tale’s interplay of banter, tenderness, and mystery, courtesy of the refreshingly spunky Lady Tasha Hall. “What [this author] can do with one kiss, other authors can’t accomplish in a hundred-page [steamy] scene.” – Literati Literature Lovers “Once again, Nina Lane has demonstrated she is the queen of Victorian romance.” – Sharon, Goodreads reviewer The Daring Hearts Series - A Study in Seduction - A Passion for Pleasure - A Dream of Desire - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas keywords: regency romance, Victorian, marriage of convenience, British, London, scandal, family saga, steamy historical lovers, steamy historical, Bridgerton, England, 1800's, ton for fans of: Kasey Michaels, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Elizabeth Everett, Eva Leigh, Diana Gabaldon, Suzanne Enoch, Carolyn Brown, Celeste Bradley, K.J. Charles, Stephanie Laurens, Virginia Henley, Mary Jo Putney, Carla Kelly, Bertrice Small, Lynsay Sands topics: friends to lovers, hot duke, strong heroine, nineteenth century, society, ballrooms, chemistry, flirting, courtship, romance saga, heartwarming romance, women's fiction romance
Author : Deb Miskell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1304522075
Author : B. L. Cagle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781737982210
Paranormal Romance
Author : David Bret
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Rudolph Valentino remains perhaps the most beautiful man ever to have appeared on celluloid. In a career spanning barely seven years and fourteen major films, his name became... and is still... synonymous with unbridled Latin passion.Whenever his image flickered onto the screen, fans of both sexes swooned, whilst cynics and detractors snorted disapproval. When he died, suddenly, aged just thirty-one, thousands rioted at his funeral and several of his more ardent admirers committed suicide.In this unique biography of The World's Greatest Lover, David Bret uses much unpublished material to reveal the real Valentino, a man who was sexually attracted only to other men, and whose relationships with women brought only heartbreak and disaster.However, as Bret discovers, Valentino was far less ashamed of his sexuality than he was afraid of being trapped by the image of his public persona. In 1920s America, homosexual men were stereotyped as feeble, effeminate degenerates. None of these terms applied to Valentino... a big, powerfully-built man who excelled at most sports, boxing in particular. Yet, it was Valentino's persistent need to prove his 'manhood' which contributed to his early death.Rudolph Valentino is one of cinema's most enduring and best-loved legends. This is his remarkable story.
Author : Cheryl Holt
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aphrodisiacs
ISBN : 9781101441640
Author : Audrey Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190269936
'The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real' argues that Victorian novelistic realism is a product of the Victorians' overarching desire, both cultural and ideological, for the real. What the book calls 'realist fantasy' describes the way in which the conventions used to represent characters' dreams, daydreams, and fantasies also shape the more general and generalized fantasy that constitutes each particular novel's imagining of the real.
Author : Vala Kaye
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781386431619
Author : Linda K. Christian-Smith University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317791576
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Michael Kidd
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0271040580
Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with plots or characters derived from the Greco-Roman tradition, Michael Kidd shows that the concept of desire plays a pivotal role in adapting myth to the stage in each of several historical periods. In Stages of Desire, Kidd offers a new way of looking at the theater in Spain. Reviewing the work of playwrights from Juan del Encina to Luis Riaza, he suggests that desire constitutes a central element in a large number of Greco-Roman myths and shows how dramatists have exploited this to resituate ancient narratives within their own artistic and ideological horizons. Among the works he analyzes are Timoneda's Tragicomedia llamada Filomena, Castro's Dido y Eneas, and Unamuno's Fedra. Kidd explores how seventeenth-century playwrights were constrained by the conventions of the newly formed national theater, and how in the twentieth century mythological desire was exploited by playwrights engaged in upsetting the melodramatic conventions of the entrenched bourgeois theater. He also examines the role of desire both in the demythification of prominent classical heroes during the Franco regime and in the cultural critique of institutionalized discrimination in the current democratic period. Stages of Desire is an original and broad-ranging study that highlights both change and continuity in Spanish theater. By elegantly combining theory, literary history, and close textual analysis, Kidd demonstrates both the resilience of Greco-Roman myths and the continuing vitality of the Spanish stage.
