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Odalisque

Author : Fiona McIntosh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060899115
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Odalisque written by Fiona McIntosh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a captive of merciless desert slave traders, Lazar fought his way to freedom—and to an exalted role as Spur of Percheron, guardian of his adopted city, and confidant and protector of the Zar, Joreb. But now the Zar is dead and his fifteen-year-old heir, Boaz, must assume the mantle of leadership—guided by trusted advisor Lazar, the "mad" dwarf jester Pez . . . and Boaz's cruel, ambitious mother, who truly holds the reins of power. In the midst of roiling court intrigue, a young girl arrives to fill a space in Boaz's harem—and inflames unexpectedly strong feelings in both Boaz and Lazar. But the odalisque, Ana, will not be satisfied by the closeted, stifling world of the harem. And, unbeknownst to all, the gods themselves are rising up in cyclical battle—as the struggle begins within and beyond the palace walls for the imperiled soul of Percheron.

Odalisque in Pieces

Author : Carmen GimŽnez Smith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816527885
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Odalisque in Pieces written by Carmen GimŽnez Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut poetry collection, Carmen GimŽnez Smith illuminates Latina identity in the prismatic light of postcolonial history, feminism, myth, and the fragmentation of modernity. From these disparate elements she fashions a female personaÑÒclairvoyant with great shoesÓÑwho is both bracingly modern and movingly vulnerable. Through her poems we traverse the landscape of a womanÕs life (girl, mother, lover), navigating a terrain tinted with mythology and relic yet still fresh and uncharted. The poems revolve around issues of identityÑand the ways in which identity is both inherited and constructed/reconstructed. Or, as one poem puts it, ÒThe planet floating backwards / whirling some of us older than the stars, some of us nascent and bare.Ó Although she employs techniques of avant-garde poetry, GimŽnez Smith shades and deepens the New World landscape into a territory of rare lyric intensity and energy. Humorous, sly, sexy, sophisticated, these poems are animated by passion and hard-won knowledge. In these poems we encounter such strange beauties as a girl assembling and disassembling, a moth trapped in a glass of water, new-age fairy godmothers, and a lark who sings for the milkman. Yet we are also made aware of how these beauties reflect the speakerÕs troublesÑher effort to employ, in the words of one of her most memorable poems, ÒOnly the invisible post where she writes the encounters / with airÕs lusters. Only the imagined hour / with which sheÕs made a fragile craft.Ó Vivid and charged with an inner light, these are poems that linger and expand in the mind and memory.

Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden

Author : Rose Simpson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913689115
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden written by Rose Simpson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion. Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Licorice McKechnie), morphing from English student to West Coast hippie and, finally, bassist in leathers. The band's image adorned psychedelic posters and its music was the theme song for an alternative lifestyle. Rose and partner Mike Heron believed in, and lived, a naive vision of utopia in Scotland. But they were also a band on tour, enjoying the thrills of that life. They were at the center of "Swinging London" and at the Chelsea Hotel with Andy Warhol's superstars. They shared stages with rock idols and played at Woodstock in 1969. Rose and fellow ISB member Licorice were hippie pin-ups, while Heron and Robin Williamson the seers and prophets of a new world.

Quicksilver

Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061792772
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Quicksilver written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ...

Odalisques and Arabesques

Author : Ken Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odalisques and Arabesques written by Ken Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has conducted a great deal of scholarly research on the often obscure careers of photographers and the intertwined histories of the Levantine studios. He demonstrates that many of the past criticisms of Orientalist photography are based on ignorance either of chronology or technology.

Odalisque

Author : Annabel Joseph
Publisher : Scarlet Rose Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odalisque written by Annabel Joseph and published by Scarlet Rose Press. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai Chandler has it all. A thriving tech business, movie star friends, and a mansion in the Malibu hills. But he’s lonely, nursing a broken heart and reeling from a shocking breach of trust. Then a friend tells him about a secret chateau outside Paris where they train women in the erotic traditions of the Code d’Odalisque. For a million a year, Kai can acquire a sexual servant to use at will, a woman thoroughly trained in the pleasuring of men. Kai makes the trip and meets Constance, a shy and strangely quiet odalisque. By the time he learns that Constance is deaf, he’s already too drawn to her sensual mystery to consider anyone else. He decides to acquire the beautiful woman and bring her to his home. Constance and Kai delight in their voyage of erotic exploration as he plays undisputed Master to her slave. But soon they find themselves forming an increasingly emotional connection, with the end of Constance’s term of service looming over their heads. Jealousy, fear, regret and longing threaten to tear the lovers apart, and they must choose between the safety of the Code and the risk of true love and trust.

Hurrem

Author : Demet Altinyeleklioglu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947228719
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Hurrem written by Demet Altinyeleklioglu and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hürrem is the third part in a saga that became the inspiration for the creators of the 'Magnificent Century' television series. The story, full of love, power, and intrigues, follows the lives of the Sultan's court, where behind every man, even the most powerful one, stands a woman who knows how to steer him. Set at the beginning of 16th century, Aleksandra, the small daughter of Russian clergyman, is kidnapped during a barbaric attack on the village. In a remarkable twist of trust, the young girl's kidnapper becomes her savior, and they quickly establish a father-daughter bond. However, life at the Tatar giant's side isn't a good solution for a growing beauty. Soon, Aleksandra finds herself at the Crimean Khan's palace, and immediately wins Sultana Güldane's heart. The old woman predicts a great future for the Russian girl and eventually sets her out on a journey to meet her destiny. Aleksandra, sent as a gift from the Crimean Khan to the Ottoman Empire's Khan, Sultan Sulieman, ends up in the powerful ruler's harem. There, the Russian odalisque takes on the name Ruslana, and waits weeks to meet the Sultan. Her dream is not only to win Sulieman's heart but also for power and to rule. Suleiman eventually becomes infatuated with the red-headed odalisque, and renames her Hürrem - and so begins the story of a woman who refused to be stopped in her desire for power, and to be remembered forever.

Odalisque

Author : Mark Salerno
Publisher : Salt Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781844713295
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Odalisque written by Mark Salerno and published by Salt Pub. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odalisque employs the lyric poem to achieve a complicated and layered narrative. It is, on the surface, the story of an L.A.P.D. bomb squad detective who falls for a street hooker. This transgression leads to his dismissal from the force, but it is only one of many instances in the book of "stepping over the line." There is also the story of a "scrivener" and an "odalisque," which is interleaved with the cop's story and is simultaneous with it. Indeed, it seems as if there are the same story, read as palimpsests of each other. The events are not so much set in Los Angeles as imbedded in it, because the city, with its free-floating mythologies of fame, immigration, identity, and transformation, are central to the tale. However, in Odalisque, the mythology does not match up with the reality, and the characters find themselves strung up "between seeming and being." The book reads as one long poem presented in 14-line panels or tableaux.

Odalisque

Author : Fleur Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Odalisque written by Fleur Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Goddess

Author : Fiona McIntosh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060899131
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Goddess written by Fiona McIntosh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While enemy ships threaten Percheron's harbor, heroic Lazar lies afflicted with the drezden illness and cannot rise. And Zaradine Ana has been taken prisoner by the mysterious Arafanz and his warriors, and is believed to be with child—carrying the heir to the throne, the unborn son of Zar Boaz. Torn by an inner conflict raging between heart and head, Zar Boaz can think only of Ana, even as his land sits poised on the brink of devastating war. Launching a daring, desperate plan, he calls for his country's strongest to make one more foray into the desert . . . even as the Goddess reaches the crest of her ascent, throwing mortal and divine alike into chaotic battle for the soul of Percheron.

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779763
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Western Representations of the Muslim Woman written by Mohja Kahf and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed—the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality. In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.

The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-century British Fiction and Culture

Author : Piya Pal-Lapinski
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654292
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-century British Fiction and Culture written by Piya Pal-Lapinski and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and provocative approach to representations of exotic women in Victorian Britain.

Emissary

Author : Fiona McIntosh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060899123
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Emissary written by Fiona McIntosh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prisoner in the forbidden harem of the great Stone Palace of Percheron, Ana inflames the desires of every man who sees her, even as she fears for her future. The city's beloved protector, Spur Lazar, offered up his life for her, accepting punishment intended for the bewitching odalisque. Now, without Lazar's guiding hand, Percheron has become a darker, more treacherous place. Mistrusting the machinations of Herezah, his mother—who plots to destroy the odalisque Ana—the young Zar Boaz seeks counsel from the suddenly changed and dangerously secretive "Grand Vizier," counsel he desperately needs. War threatens from a distant realm; the cyclical battle of the gods intensifies; and the first of the Goddess's disciples is claimed by the demon Maliz. But all schemes must ultimately rise and fall on one unknown truth: Spur Lazar lives still, recovering in secret from the illness that has left him the gift of a curse.

Odalisque

Author : Richard Manton
Publisher : Blue Moon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780929654270
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Odalisque written by Richard Manton and published by Blue Moon Books. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the high noon of Victorian empire, Lady Jenny Langham accompanies her soldier uncle to the city of Khartoum on the Nile. The inhabitants of that city are soon besieged by an army of natives, and Jenny and her maid fall into the hands of the victorious Mahdi. Bedslaves of the warriors and gentle lovers of each other, the women are enveloped by punishment and pleasure in the long hot months of erotic captivity.

The William S. Paley Collection

Author : William Rubin
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870708406
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The William S. Paley Collection written by William Rubin and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William S. Paley, founder of CBS, Inc., and a towering figure in the development of entertainment and communications industries, was also a committed collector and patron of modern art. This book catalogues the highly personal collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by such artists as [Paul] Cézanne, [Paul] Gauguin, [Henri] Matisse, [Pablo] Picasso, and others, that he bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art. ..."--Back cover.

Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures

Author : Joan DelPlato
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838638805
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures written by Joan DelPlato and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical study of French and British art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism) -- orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely published erotic popular prints and book illustrations. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures examines these works closely, often establishing fresh contexts for many of the more well-known nineteenth-century harem pictures, and often providing a consideration of lesser-known harem pictures that have been rarely published until now.

King of the Vagabonds

Author : Neal Stephenson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060833173
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book King of the Vagabonds written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.