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Download or read book Lelia's Kiss written by Laura Giannetti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.
Download or read book Elias written by Erin E. Keller and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Thomas Doyle has been living a lonely, compartmentalized life ever since the death of his life partner, Aiden. He vowed never to let anybody get close to him again -- the pain of losing a loved one is too much to bear. Despite his vow, Thomas is lonely, and has a number of one-night stands, sexual encounters with unnamed men he doesn’t care to remember. Then he meets Elias. Elias Byrne knows the pain of abuse and rejection intimately. Unable to escape the clutches of his older brother, Elias dreams of someone to love, and of being loved in return. He admires Thomas, but the detective never pays him any notice. In a desperate attempt to get closer to him, Elias steals his wallet, then gives it back the next day. Pretty soon, Thomas feels a strong attraction to the fiery, arrogant, younger man. Elias intrigues him, but he resists his growing feelings because he doesn’t want to get hurt again. When Thomas rescues Elias from his abusive brother, can he also rescue them both from the loneliness that threatens to consume them? Can Elias conquer the detective’s hardened heart and find the love he always longed for? Or will Thomas stubbornly refuse to give himself another chance at love?
Book Synopsis Woman in Her Infinite Variety by : George Graham Currie
Download or read book Woman in Her Infinite Variety written by George Graham Currie and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leila written by Antonio Fogazzaro and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bottoms Up, Boracay (Season 1 Habagat) by : Ayin Quijano
Download or read book Bottoms Up, Boracay (Season 1 Habagat) written by Ayin Quijano and published by Ayin Quijano. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get over someone? Get under someone else. Or so an islander tells her. When Alana’s world shatters for the first time after a breakup, she’s desperate for a way out of her personal hell to survive. So she quits her job and the city and runs to a place often called paradise, Boracay Island. Little did she know it’s habagat season, and the island is raining with men and possibilities. Suddenly, she discovers there’s more to life than swimming in tears. And when a hot guy or two offers a new liquid shot at love and happiness? She takes it, bottoms up! Never mind the spills. If you like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love or are a fan of the Sex & the City series, then you will enjoy taking this journey with Alana as she learns to let go and live the best life in Boracay.
Book Synopsis Domesticated Magic by : Wendy Palmer
Download or read book Domesticated Magic written by Wendy Palmer and published by Winterbourne Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mateo Taurasi and his family fled their island home when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in the Vaeringan Empire...and his family still use it every day in their cosy teahouse. The last thing they need is an Imperial barging in to catch them at it. Luckily, Jonas just wants to offer them a trade deal too good to resist. As hard as he tries, Mateo begins to find the cheerfully charming Jonas too good to resist, too. But an unfairly attractive Imperial is not Mateo’s only problem. Rumours of sorcery loose in the city mean trouble for the Taurasi. With Jonas caught up in the mess, Mateo must investigate. His family already lost their world once. Mateo can’t let them lose again. Not even if it costs him the man he really wishes he didn't have feelings for. c/w: explicit transm/m sex scenes
Book Synopsis Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance by : Laura Giannetti
Download or read book Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance written by Laura Giannetti and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, sex, and satirized or upturned gender roles and social stereotypes characterize the Latin comedies updated and translated into Italian that became popular in Italy at the turn of the 16th century. The translations are by and for scholars of literature and history, rather than for production or performance. There are explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis The Antonides Marriage Deal by : Anne McAllister
Download or read book The Antonides Marriage Deal written by Anne McAllister and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek magnate Elias Antonides has single-handedly regained his family's fortune. So when his father gambles away a vital share he's furious! Elias now has a new business partner...stunning heiress Tallie Savas. Tallie's eager to prove herself, but she hasn't counted on Elias being so sexy. Elias has underestimated Tallie, and now wonders if he can make their business arrangement personal--as in marriage!
Download or read book Coexistence written by Sionainn Bowles and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if dreams were real? What if you lived your dreams: if every time you slept, you lived another's life, seeing through another's eyes, and living someone else's experiences. Seeing the world you knew, but different- another existence overlapping our own, where we existed, but not as ourselves- in another time, in another dimension. When MyAnna learns her gift of "piggybacking" other lives through her dreams is just the beginning, before long she is set upon a dangerous course to save humanity. Given to the world as a guardian, she will soon develop powers beyond basic reasoning, hidden long ago within her dreams. Powers that in the wrong hands could destroy the world. And every world MyAnna ever loved. At the turn of the twenty-second century, the world is a place controlled by powerful totalitarian governments. Drones monitoring the regime driven, class-divided society; where money rules, beliefs are suppressed, and someone is always watching. In a time where there is little left to believe in but the power you have within yourself, MyAnna will have to risk all she has to save the world she never bothered to live in, and learn to live and love in her own reality.
Book Synopsis Kiss and Tell by : Suzanne Brockmann
Download or read book Kiss and Tell written by Suzanne Brockmann and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann comes a funny, feisty, romantic tale about childhood rivals who discover the mystery of grown-up love. When Leila Hunt is swept off her feet by a ninja at a New Year's Eve costume party, she has no idea who the masked man is—but after he disappears into the night, she’s determined to find him. When the clock struck twelve, what began as a friendly New Year's greeting quickly became the most unforgettable kiss Leila had ever experienced with anyone—including her absent boyfriend. But of all the possible suspects, Leila hardly imagines that the ninja is the same man who’s teased, tormented—and secretly intrigued her—since childhood. Marshall Devlin is finally ready to face the terrifying truth: he’s in love with his best friend’s sister, and has been for years. There’s just one complication: Leila didn't know he was her ninja. To win her, Marsh will have to woo her. But can he make Leila forget their decades of verbal sparring in time to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life? From the Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Mistletoe Christmas by : Eloisa James
Download or read book Mistletoe Christmas written by Eloisa James and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From four beloved writers—Eloisa James, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor, and Erica Ridley—come four original stories that tell a hilarious tale of a Christmas house party that serves up love and scandal in equal measure! The Duke of Greystoke’s Christmas Revelry is famous throughout the British Isles for its plays, dancing, magical grotto… not to mention scandals leading to the marriage licenses he hands out like confetti. But not everyone welcomes a visit from Cupid. Lady Cressida, the duke’s daughter, is too busy managing the entertainments—and besides, her own father has called her dowdy. Her cousin, Lady Isabelle Wilkshire, is directing Cinderella and has no interest in marriage. Lady Caroline Whitmore is already (unhappily) married; the fact that she and her estranged husband have to pretend to be together just makes her dread the party all the more. But not as much as Miss Louisa Harcourt, whose mother bluntly tells her that this is her last chance to escape the horrors of being an old maid. A house party so large that mothers lose track of their charges leads to a delightful, seductive quartet of stories that you will savor for the Season!
Download or read book Too Much Money written by Dominick Dunne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, and Konstantin’s hot-tempered widow will do anything to conceal the truth. Featuring favorite characters and the affluent world Dunne first introduced in People Like Us, Too Much Money is a mischievous, compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn’t afraid to share them.
Book Synopsis The Princess Problem by : Christi Barth
Download or read book The Princess Problem written by Christi Barth and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What woman doesn’t want to wear a tiara? Me. The one who lives in yoga pants and knows she’s not special enough to be a princess. One minute I’m starting my dream life in NYC, and the next, a man too hot for his own good is banging on my door, telling me that I’m a long lost princess of a country on the other side of the Atlantic. Not exactly your typical Friday night in the Big Apple. Suddenly, all of my plans for the future are yanked away. I’m trapped in a life filled with social obligations—and stilettos!—and an uptight royal family I didn’t know existed. They, and the whole rest of the freaking country, have lofty expectations I’m not sure I can meet. At least the aforementioned sexalicious man, Elias, is my constant shadow, protecting me with his life. The whole situation is overwhelming. So I’ve secretly put him in charge of my happiness, too...and he’s taking my orders very, very seriously. So seriously, I’m falling for him even harder than the new country I’m coming to...maybe...love. And that’s a major problem, because he’s crazy about me, too. I may not know all the zillion rules about being royal, but I know one for sure: No way can a princess date her bodyguard... Each book in the Sexy Misadventures of Royals series is STANDALONE: * The Princess Problem * Ruling the Princess
Book Synopsis Blades of Destiny by : Clifford Hatton
Download or read book Blades of Destiny written by Clifford Hatton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blades of Destiny: Heritage is a tale of another world where war rages in the kingdom of Domus. An evil sorceress and her army of assassins attempt to gain control, but hope remains. It is prophesied that the Crystal Children will find the ancient Blades of powerful magic which were lost, and they will restore peace to the land. Follow Danyielle and her friends in their quest to defeat the darkness forever!
Book Synopsis The Ancient Magus' Bride Supplement II by : Kore Yamazaki
Download or read book The Ancient Magus' Bride Supplement II written by Kore Yamazaki and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the wealth of information contained in the first supplement, the in-depth guide to the series continues in this new installment. Chapter-by-chapter notes reveal a treasure trove about volumes 4-6 of The Ancient Magus' Bride. This handbook offers new insight into the story, the author's intent, and the real-world mythology that inspired the series--all from a uniquely Japanese perspective. If you're hoping for a deeper examination of the story of Elias and Chise, look no further!
Book Synopsis A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 by : Various
Download or read book A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
