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The Indecent Death of a Madam

Author : Simon Parke
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 1910674494
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Indecent Death of a Madam written by Simon Parke and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stormhaven Etiquette Society, a secretive affair, unafraid to name and shame those who transgress Model Services, the town’s only brothel, a discreet but busy presence in Church Street Bybuckle Asylum, a desolate shell on the seafront that housed over seven hundred mental patients prior to ‘care in the community’ What brings these three together is a cold-blooded execution that both shocks and confounds. For lying dead in the empty asylum, tied to an old metal bed frame, is a pillar of the establishment. Or is she? Sleuthing couple DI Tamsin Shah and her remarkable cleric uncle join forces once again to solve a murder mystery that reveals dark secrets from Abbot Peter’s tempestuous student years. ‘Do we ever leave anything behind?’ he wonders as the killer swings the gun barrel towards him . . . ‘To a long list of much-loved detective pairings, which includes Holmes and Watson, Poirot and Hastings, and Morse and Lewis, we must now add Abbot Peter and Tamsin Shah’. Church Times

The Obscene Madame D

Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 180533137X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Obscene Madame D written by Hilda Hilst and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2025-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits. Every month I ingested the body of God, not in the way one swallows green peas or agrostis, or swallows swords, I ingested the body of God the way people do when they know they are swallowing the More, the All, the Incommensurable, for not believing in finitude I would lose myself in absolute infinity… The Obscene Madame D tells the story of Hillé, a sixty-year-old woman who has decided to abandon conventional life and spend the rest of her days in contemplation in a recess under the stairs. There, she is haunted by the perplexity of her recently deceased lover, Ehud, who cannot understand her rejection of common sense, sex and a simple life in favour of metaphysical speculations that he considers delusional and vain. In a stream-of-consciousness monologue that’s part James Joyce, part Clarice Lispector, and part de Sade, Hillé speaks of her search for spiritual fulfilment from a space of dereliction, as she searches for answers to great questions of life, death and the relationship between body and soul.

Louis the Fourteenth

Author : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis the Fourteenth written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Woman Wang

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014005121X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Woman Wang written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1979-03-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.

Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Louis the Fourteenth and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century ... Third Edition, with an Index, Etc

Author : Miss Pardoe (Julia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Louis the Fourteenth, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century ... Third Edition, with an Index, Etc written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241215862
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man written by Georges Bataille and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is the story of a prostitute who calls herself God, and The Dead Man, published in 1964 after Bataille's death, is a startling short tale of cruelty and desire. This volume also contains Bataille's own introductions to his texts as well as essays by Yukio Mishima and Ken Hollings.

Memoirs of Madame Malibran de Beriot

Author : Isaac Nathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Madame Malibran de Beriot written by Isaac Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers

Author : Esther Singleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 9

Author : Gina Luria Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040243282
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Women Writers, Part III vol 9 written by Gina Luria Walker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women.

The Trials of Madame Restell

Author : Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620978091
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Madame Restell written by Nicholas L. Syrett and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period she prevailed—until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.

Desire Street

Author : Jed Horne
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429926759
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Desire Street written by Jed Horne and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong. In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother. The second, a young black man with a gun in hand. Moments following their maybe not so chance encounter, Mrs. Dye lay dead on the sunbaked macadam, and the killer had made off with her purse, her groceries, and her car. Four days later, following a tip, authorities arrested a known drug dealer and father of five named Curtis Kyles. Kyles would then be tried for Mrs. Dye's murder an unprecedented five times, though he maintained his innocence throughout each trial. Convicted and sentenced to death in his second trial, he would spend fourteen years on death row. After a fifth jury was unable to reach a verdict, New Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr., finally conceded defeat and dropped the murder charge. But the case slowly yielded a deeper drama: The crime turned out to have been the side effect of an intricately plotted act of revenge. That police and prosecutors may have been complicit in the vengeance that framed Kyles cuts to the heart of a system of justice for Southern blacks in the era since lynch mobs were shamed into obsolescence. A compellingly written legal drama that has at its heart passionate intrigue and justice gone awry. Desire Street is a 2006 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.

Louis XIV, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Julia Pardoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Louis XIV, and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century written by Julia Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political, Social, and Literary History of France

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political, Social, and Literary History of France written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's Finery

Author :
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800345097
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's Finery written by and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist's evolving theory of the esperpento as a satirical genre.

Female Biography

Author : Mary Hays
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Female Biography written by Mary Hays and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Madame Restell

Author : Jennifer Wright
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306826828
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Madame Restell written by Jennifer Wright and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction (2023)** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR in BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR and HISTORY** **An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH (March 2023)** **A Bookshop.Org EDITOR'S PICK (March 2023)** “This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.” An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling “boarding house” provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of women—rich and poor alike. As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. But far from fading into the background, she defiantly flaunted her wealth, parading across the city in designer clothes, expensive jewelry, and bejeweled carriages, rubbing her success in the faces of the many politicians, publishers, fellow physicians, and religious figures determined to bring her down. Unfortunately for Madame Restell, her rise to the top of her field coincided with “the greatest scam you’ve never heard about”—the campaign to curtail women’s power by restricting their access to both healthcare and careers of their own. Powerful, secular men—threatened by women’s burgeoning independence—were eager to declare abortion sinful, a position endorsed by newly-minted male MDs who longed to edge out their feminine competition and turn medicine into a standardized, male-only practice. By unraveling the misogynistic and misleading lies that put women’s lives in jeopardy, Wright simultaneously restores Restell to her rightful place in history and obliterates the faulty reasoning underlying the very foundation of what has since been dubbed the “pro-life” movement. Thought-provoking, character-driven, boldly written, and feminist as hell, Madame Restell is required reading for anyone and everyone who believes that when it comes to women’s rights, women’s bodies, and women’s history, women should have the last word.