Book Description
Tells of four women whose fates are bound to the palace and the politics of Versailles.
Author : Rosalind Laker
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385242738
Tells of four women whose fates are bound to the palace and the politics of Versailles.
Author : Eva Stachniak
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007180454
This novel, set in the late 18th century, is based on the life of the famous and much-painted courtesan, La Belle Phanariote. Dying and surrounded by her family, Sophie Glavani relives her life's dance - her journey from fallen woman to Countess, the men she has captivated, the hearts she has broken.
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Classical philology
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Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553897853
THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.
Author : Lynn Austin
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441202269
Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, Abijah and her son must discover the one true Source of strength if they are to save themselves and their country. Book 1 of Chronicles of the Kings.
Author : Judith Lynne Hanna
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1988-05-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226315515
"Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work. Dance, Sex, and Gender will initiate a discussion that should propel a more methodologically informed study of dance and gender."—Randy Martin, Journal of the History of Sexuality
Author : Laurence A. Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Motion picture acting
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Author : Kathryn Dickason
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0197527299
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and secular realms, often aligning it with demonic intervention, lust, pride, and sacrilege. Historical sources, however, suggest that medieval dance was a complex and ambivalent phenomenon. During the High and Late Middle Ages, Western theologians, liturgists, and mystics not only tolerated dance; they transformed it into a dynamic component of religious thought and practice. This book investigates how dance became a legitimate form of devotion in Christian culture. Sacred dance functioned to gloss scripture, frame spiritual experience, and imagine the afterlife. Invoking numerous manuscript and visual sources (biblical commentaries, sermons, saints' lives, ecclesiastical statutes, mystical treatises, vernacular literature, and iconography), this book highlights how medieval dance helped shape religious identity and social stratification. Moreover, this book shows the political dimension of dance, which worked in the service of Christendom, conversion, and social cohesion. In Ringleaders of Redemption, Kathryn Dickason reveals a long tradition of sacred dance in Christianity, one that the professionalization and secularization of Renaissance dance obscured, and one that the Reformation silenced and suppressed.
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Victory Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0522860192
Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1924
Category : America
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