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A Portrait of Love

Author : Minerva Spencer

Publisher :

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 13,61 MB

Release : 2020-12-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781951662431

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Honoria Keyes isn't the gawky, impressionable fifteen-year-old girl she was when she first met Simon Fairchild. Twelve years have passed, and she's a successful artist, enjoying her independence to the fullest. Simon has changed, too. Gone is the beautiful, gentle boy of Honoria's dreams. In his place is a dangerous, damaged man intent on avoiding human contact-and emotions. It would be unthinkable to fall for this difficult, wounded recluse. But then again, Honoria has never been one to do things the easy way ... Simon returned from Waterloo a bitter, broken shell of the man he once was. As if his scarred body and mind aren't bad enough, he's also financially dependent on his brother, the duke, while he convalesces. The duke's fondest wish is for Simon to marry and produce an heir-something Simon has no intention of doing. The one thing he never anticipated? All the unwanted feelings the lovely, talented, and infinitely intriguing Honoria would awaken in him ... Can Honoria and Simon heal the wounds of the past and build a life together? Or will their attempt at happily ever after end up a portrait of failure? Praise for Minerva Spencer's books: "Lovers of historical romance will be hooked on this twisty story of revenge, redemption, and reversal of fortunes." ★Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW of THE FOOTMAN "Spencer serves up an irresistible cocktail of smart characterization, sophisticated sensuality, and sharp wit-all while orchestrating her own clever spin on the popular bluestocking-and-rake trope." ★Booklist STARRED REVIEW of NOTORIOUS "Spencer's characterizations are nuanced and believable, and the passion between the protagonists scorches the pages. Readers will be hooked." ★Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW of THE MUSIC OF LOVE "Spencer's brilliant and original tale of the high seas bursts with wonderfully real protagonists, plenty of action, and passionate romance." ★Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW of BARBAROUS "Fans of Amanda Quick's early historicals will find much to savor." ★Booklist STARRED REVIEW "Sexy, witty, and fiercely entertaining." ★Kirkus STARRED REVIEW "[A] suavely sophisticated hero with sex appeal to spare, and a cascade of lushly detailed love scenes give Spencer's dazzling debut its deliciously fun retro flavor." ★Booklist STARRED REVIEW



Portrait of My Heart

Author : Meg Cabot

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 478 pages

File Size : 43,58 MB

Release : 2015-01-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466814314

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Portrait of My Heart is another passionate novel by Meg Cabot, originally writing under the name Patricia Cabot—released as an e-book for the first time! They parted in disgrace... Years ago, in one explosive instant, childhood rivalry turned into wild passion for Jeremy, handsome young Duke of Rawlings, and Maggie Herbert, the object of his affections. Unfortunately, the ensuing scandal found them banished to separate corners of the world. But desire will bring them back together. Now fate has joined Jeremy and Maggie again—for a long-overdue dance of desire as uncompromising as the lovers themselves. Jeremy, a decorated soldier, is determined to claim Maggie at last. And Maggie, engaged to be married to another man, finds her secret fantasies of Jeremy spinning out of control. All that stands between them and the steamy passion the years can no longer chain is the past-- and a present steeped in jealousy, intrigue, and danger...



A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author : James Joyce

Publisher : The Floating Press

Page : 395 pages

File Size : 18,4 MB

Release : 2010-06-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1775417891

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is semi-autobiographical, following Joyce's fictional alter-ego through his artistic awakening. The young artist Steven Dedelus begins to rebel against the Irish Catholic dogma of his childhood and discover the great philosophers and artists. He follows his artistic calling to the continent.



Portrait of My Soul

Author : Martin Ghando

Publisher :

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 18,81 MB

Release : 2021-10-22

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN :

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My Heart--Christ's Home

Author : Robert Boyd Munger

Publisher : InterVarsity Press

Page : 48 pages

File Size : 28,42 MB

Release : 2010-07-26

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0830863699

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More than ten million readers have enjoyed Robert Boyd Munger's spiritually challenging meditation on Christian discipleship. Now revised and expanded, My Heart--Christ's Home leads you to examine for yourself all the aspects of your life--considering what Christ most desires for you.



Portrait of the Alcoholic

Author : Kaveh Akbar

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Page : 45 pages

File Size : 28,2 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781943977277

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Portrait of the Alcoholic is the first chapbook of poems from Ruth Lilly-winner and founding editor of Divedapper, Kaveh Akbar.



Painting My Heart

Author : Bronte Pech

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 635 pages

File Size : 23,22 MB

Release : 2011-02-16

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ISBN : 3000333037

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Transformations of Memory and Forgetting in Sixteenth-Century France

Author : Nicolas Russell

Publisher : University of Delaware

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 40,79 MB

Release : 2011-04-29

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1611490553

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This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forgetting. Focusing on a corpus of texts by Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de Montaigne, it explores several parallel transformations of and challenges to classical and medieval discourses on memory.



Kahlo

Author : Gerry Souter

Publisher : Parkstone International

Page : 81 pages

File Size : 30,30 MB

Release : 2011-12-22

Category : Art

ISBN : 1780424388

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Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he was an obsessive womanizer, the great painter Diego Rivera was by her side. She won him over with her charm, talent and intelligence, and Kahlo learnt to lean on the success of her companion in order to explore the world, thus creating her own legacy whilst finding herself surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. Her personal life was turbulent, as she frequently left her relationship with Diego to one side whilst she cultivated her own bisexual relationships. Despite this, Frida and Diego managed to save their frayed relationship. The story and the paintings that Frida left us display a courageous account of a woman constantly on a search of self discovery.



Portrait Stories

Author : Michal Peled Ginsburg

Publisher : Fordham Univ Press

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 17,12 MB

Release : 2014-12-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0823262618

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What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter from the act of representation (often at the expense of the portrait’s subject), while also exploring how and why this act may threaten the portrait painter’s sense of self. Analyzing the viewer’s relation to the portrait, she demonstrates how portrait stories problematize the very act of seeing and with it the way subjectivity is constructed in the field of vision.