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Accursed Women

Author : Luciana Cavallaro
Publisher : Mythos Publications
ISBN 13 : 0987473743
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Accursed Women written by Luciana Cavallaro and published by Mythos Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five stories, five women, five legends. Phaedra, a Minoan princess, marries out of duty and to safeguard her precious home. She falls in love with Hippolytos, her husband’s son and asks the Goddess Aphrodite for help. He spurns her affections. The Trojan War, one of history’s greatest stories ever told. What if the legend as told is wrong? History is told by the victors, and facts changed to twist the truth. Is it possible Helen of Sparta never went to Troy? Hera, Queen of the Gods, is the most powerful goddess on Mount Olympos. For the first time ever in a candid interview, Hera shares what it’s like to be a goddess and wife to Zeus, the King of the Gods. Created by the gods as a gift to humanity, Pandora is the first woman on Earth. Did she know what Zeus intended when he presented an urn as a wedding dowry to her husband? Neither she nor Epimetheus knew what it contained, but they were told never to open it. All Medousa wanted was a life of love and acceptance but one fateful night it changed. While she’s alone in the Temple of Athene tending to the sacred fire, Poseidon pays a visit. No human can stop an immortal from taking what they want.

Conjure Women

Author : Afia Atakora
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525511490
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Conjure Women written by Afia Atakora and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • NPR • Parade • Book Riot • PopMatters “Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported.”—Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “[A] haunting, promising debut . . . Through complex characters and bewitching prose, Atakora offers a stirring portrait of the power conferred between the enslaved women. This powerful tale of moral ambiguity amid inarguable injustice stands with Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An engrossing debut . . . Atakora structures a plot with plenty of satisfying twists. Life in the immediate aftermath of slavery is powerfully rendered in this impressive first novel.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904887
Total Pages : 2227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady written by Samuel Richardson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 2227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, Clarissa is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels.

Clarissa, or The history of a young lady

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Clarissa, or The history of a young lady written by Samuel Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lady Lilith

Author : Stephen McKenna
Publisher : New York : G.H. Doran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lady Lilith written by Stephen McKenna and published by New York : G.H. Doran. This book was released on 1920 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Accursed

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062234366
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Accursed written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it.” —Stephen King, New York Times Book Review Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton—their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man—a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up. When the bride’s brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton’s most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the University, and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair, to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/ Mark Twain—all plagued by “accursed” visions. Narrated with Oates's unmistakable psychological insight, The Accursed combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

Romance

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romance written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This World, Other Worlds

Author : María Cátedra Tomás
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226097152
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book This World, Other Worlds written by María Cátedra Tomás and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-11-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe—and an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. This World, Other Worlds considers death among the Vaqueiros as a central cultural fact which reveals local ideas about the origin and destiny of humans, the relations of humans and animals, the configuration of the universe, and the nature of society. Interested chiefly in the conceptual and meaningful aspects of death, María Cátedra focuses on the cultural resources with which the Vaqueiros confront their own mortality—how they experience death and what this reveals about the way they see this world and other worlds. Applying sensitive ethnographic insight to a rich body of oral testimony, Cátedra discloses an unsuspected symbolic universe native to the Vaqueiros. Death is seen here in close, coherent relation to pain, age, and suffering; sickness and suicide, one must understand the cultural valuation of different ways of dying and the conditions under which suicides take place. To understand what it means to be a Vaqueiro is to understand how suicide can be perceived by a people as acceptable. A groundbreaking work in European ethnography, This World, Other Worlds takes symbolic analysis to a new level. In its illumination of local conceptions of death, grace, and sainthood, the book also makes a substantial contribution to the anthropology of religion.

The Weary Sons of Freud

Author : Catherine Clement
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688850
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Weary Sons of Freud written by Catherine Clement and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients’ condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clément contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers—the weary sons of Freud. The analyst’s once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like.

A lion among the ladies

Author : Philip Gaskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A lion among the ladies written by Philip Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Third Biennial, General Federation of Women's Clubs

Author : General Federation of Women's Clubs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Third Biennial, General Federation of Women's Clubs written by General Federation of Women's Clubs and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs

Author : General Federation of Women's Clubs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs written by General Federation of Women's Clubs and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grief Lessons

Author : Euripides
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171806
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Grief Lessons written by Euripides and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless—women and children, slaves and barbarians—for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies. Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They areHerakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family;Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors;Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fableAlkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”

The Open Court

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Open Court

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clarissa

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2739 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Clarissa written by Samuel Richardson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 2739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady is regency bestseller, the classic of English literature. _x000D_ It tells the tragic story of a young woman, whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. The Harlowes are a recently wealthy family whose preoccupation with increasing their standing in society leads to obsessive control of their daughter, Clarissa, who runs away from home to find love and happiness. However things start turning south soon.

Women, Take Your Right Place in the Body of Christ!

Author : Dovie Young
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490803734
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Women, Take Your Right Place in the Body of Christ! written by Dovie Young and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for women who have been seeking the Lord for their place in the body of Christ. Much has been said against the calling of women. This book will help women to be freed from what they have heard for many generations about women not being leaders in the church. Jesus equipped His church, giving gifts to men and women. God wants to use yielded, bold vessels in these last days, and women should know that they are included in this higher level of supernatural power; however, they have been bound to what has been said from the Scriptures in what Paul was addressing. It is incumbent on us to search the Scriptures through the power of the Holy Spirit so that He can harmonize for us the full knowledge of His word. This book will help you pull your callings and anointings off the shelf and begin to move forward in faith for what God has for you. Women! Take your place in the body of Christ!