The Blush and Other Stories
Author : Elizabeth Taylor
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Elizabeth Taylor
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Marie Gray
Publisher : Sourcebooks Casablanca
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402209000
Seven new erotic tales from the author of Stories to Make You Blush Seven erotic short stories that drawn on everyday life and celebrate love and lust in the most delicious way. Enjoy an invitation to slip backstage at a rock concert, or bask in the sun on a Mexican beach; takes in which manhood is at issue and pleasant surprises are unveiled in a department store dressing room...A joyful exploration of sexual desire. These stories of sheer pleasure, like fantasies revealed, will charm you with their sensual humor and tenderness.
Author : Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1986
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780860686729
Short stories. Author pursues the nuances of ordinary life with compassion and wit.
Author : Elizabeth TAYLOR (Writer of Fiction.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Karen Russell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525656146
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell’s extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination. Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In“Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors,” two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void—yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.
Author : Suzanne Forster
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425151884
Desperate for the freedom and respect that her wealth, privilege, and beauty cannot buy, Augusta Featherstone undertakes a desperate gamble by arranging for her own abduction, but her captor is a mysterious stranger with his own dangerous agenda.
Author : Jamie Brenner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059308781X
From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future. For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian, she fears that this summer season could be their last—and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark secret she's harbored for decades. Meanwhile, her daughter, Leah, who was turned away from the business years ago, finds her marriage at a crossroads and returns home for a sorely needed escape. And granddaughter Sadie, grappling with a crisis of her own, runs to the vineyard looking for inspiration. But when Sadie uncovers journals from Vivian's old book club dedicated to scandalous novels of decades past, she realizes that this might be the distraction they all need. Reviving the "trashy" book club, the Hollander women find that the stories hold the key to their fight not only for the vineyeard, but for the life and love they've wanted all along. Blush is a bighearted story of love, family, and second chances, and an ode to the blockbuster novels that have shaped generations of women.
Author : Oliver Onions
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
THE first thing that the new parson noticed, as he rode up the narrow, precipitous street late in the October afternoon, was that the muffled knock-knocking that proceeded from the houses ceased as he ascended; and the next was that he had never in his life seen so many mongrel dogs as prowled and sniffed at his heels. He had left his grey galloway in Horwick Town, three miles back; he now saw the reason why they had laughed, and advised him that he might as well sell it there and then. Wadsworth Shelf had been steep; Wadsworth Street was precipitous; and at the head of the street rose Wadsworth Scout, dark and mountainous. The Scout was thinly wooded here and there with birch and mountain-ash. It overshadowed the village beneath it; and as the parson reached the small square at its foot he saw, over an irregular row of roofs, the squat belfry of the little church that was now his charge. A ramshackle inn, with a long horse-trough in front of it, occupied the lower side of the square.
Author : Frances Noyes Hart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368911805
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Joe Allard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131786042X
Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. Now in a fully revised second edition, the collection of essays written by leading academics in the field is set to build upon its established reputation as the standard introduction to the literatures of the time. Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasy of The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood, andprovide the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and enjoy this complex but rewarding field. The book sheds light, too, on the shadowy contexts of the period, with suggestive and highly readable essays on matters ranging from the dynamism of the Viking Age to Anglo-Saxon input into The Lord of the Rings, from the great religious prose works to the transition from Old to Middle English. It also branches out into related traditions, with expert introductions to the Icelandic Sagas, Viking Religion and Norse Mythology. Peter S. Baker provides an outstanding guide to taking your first steps in the Old English language, while David Crystal provides a crisp linguistic overview of the entire period. With a new chapter by Mike Bintley on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a revised chapter by Stewart Brookes on the prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform, this updated second edition will be essential reading for students of the period.