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The Courtesan

Author : Susan Carroll
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345484649
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Courtesan written by Susan Carroll and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court–but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. Paris, 1575. The consort of some of Europe’s most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined to secure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre. As his mistress, Gabrielle hopes she might one day become the power behind the French throne. But her plans are jeopardized by Captain Nicolas Rémy, a devoted warrior whose love Gabrielle desires–and fears–above all. She will also incur the malevolence of the Dark Queen, Catherine de’ Medici, whose spies and witch-hunters are legion, and who will summon the black arts to maintain her authority. With the lives of those she loves in peril, Gabrielle must rebel against her queen to fulfill a glorious destiny she has sacrificed everything to gain. Alive with vivid period detail and characters as vibrant as they are memorable, The Courtesan is a sweeping historical tale of dangerous intrigues, deep treachery, and one woman’s unshakable resolve to honor her heart.

Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Author : Mao Xiang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546866
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge written by Mao Xiang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the turmoil of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China, some intellectuals sought refuge in romantic memories from what they perceived as cataclysmic events. This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse. Mao Xiang chronicles his relationship with the courtesan Dong Bai, who became his concubine two years before the Ming dynasty fell. His mournful remembrance of their life together, written shortly after her early death, includes harrowing descriptions of their wartime sufferings as well as idyllic depictions of romantic bliss. Yu Huai offers a group portrait of Nanjing courtesans, mixing personal memories with reported anecdotes. Writing fifty years after the fall of the Ming, he expresses a deep nostalgia for courtesan culture that bears the toll of individual loss and national calamity. Together, they shed light on the sensibilities of late Ming intellectuals: their recollections of refined pleasures and ruminations on the vagaries of memory coexist with political engagement and a belief in bearing witness. With an introduction and extensive annotations, Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge is a valuable source for the literature of remembrance, the representation of women, and the social role of intellectuals during a tumultuous period in Chinese history.

In the Company of the Courtesan

Author : Sarah Dunant
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365506
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of the Courtesan written by Sarah Dunant and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan’s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino’s greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all. A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world’s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the final page.

The Courtesan's Arts

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195170290
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Courtesan's Arts written by Martha Feldman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.

Shadows on the Moon

Author : Zoë Marriott
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763653446
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Moon written by Zoë Marriott and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained in the magical art of shadow-weaving, sixteen-year-old Suzume, who is able to re-create herself in any form, is destined to use her skills to steal the heart of a prince in a revenge pot.

The Courtesan's Book of Secrets

Author : Georgie Lee
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460340868
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Courtesan's Book of Secrets written by Georgie Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovered: a list of noblemen's names—each one guilty of treason To save his family legacy, Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan's infamous register. No one can ever know how his father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe's way—the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane. In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia made an unbeatable…intimate team. Until, convinced of Rafe's desertion, desperate Cornelia married an elderly comte. Now, returning to London an impoverished widow, she'll do anything to possess the register. Even if that means becoming Rafe's partner once again…. "Lee's novel hits the sweet spot." —RT Book Reviews on Engagement of Convenience

The Mistress of Paris

Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250120667
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Mistress of Paris written by Catherine Hewitt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life ; The Government Clerks

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan's Life ; The Government Clerks written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Author : Оноре де Бальзак
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040757069
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan's Life written by Оноре де Бальзак and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dona Tules

Author : Mary J. Straw Cook
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826343147
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Dona Tules written by Mary J. Straw Cook and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cook takes a new look at this notorious woman of 1840s Santa Fe.

A Courtesan's Scandal

Author : Julia London
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668052776
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book A Courtesan's Scandal written by Julia London and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Julia London is at her best in this sensual Regency where a Duke must pretend his mistress is his wife. Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant...and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London society that he is having an affair with Kate. When Grayson reluctantly agrees to his Prince's demand, he finds the lady no more willing than he is. Kate will grudgingly act the part in public, but her favors are not for sale to any man. As Grayson and Kate mimic ardor for the world to see, they find what started as a deception becoming all too real. And when passion flames into love, their predicament becomes extreme. For while marriage between a duke and a courtesan could never happen, Kate knows in her heart that she is willing to accept nothing less...

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan's Life written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pursued: A Vampire Blood Courtesans Romance

Author : Lisa Carlisle
Publisher : Lisa Carlisle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursued: A Vampire Blood Courtesans Romance written by Lisa Carlisle and published by Lisa Carlisle. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Author : Honore de Balzac
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613101112
Total Pages : 1851 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan's Life written by Honore de Balzac and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan's Life written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. Excerpt: "In spite of this shapeless wrapper they could watch the most appealing of dramas, that of a woman inspired by a genuine passion. Were she La Torpille, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, or Madame de Serizy, on the lowest or highest rung of the social ladder, this woman was an exquisite creature, a flash from happy dreams. These old young men, like these young old men, felt so keen an emotion, that they envied Lucien the splendid privilege of working such a metamorphosis of a woman into a goddess. The mask was there as though she had been alone with Lucien; for that woman the thousand other persons did not exist, nor the evil and dust-laden atmosphere; no, she moved under the celestial vault of love, as Raphael's Madonnas under their slender oval glory. She did not feel herself elbowed; the fire of her glance shot from the holes in her mask and sank into Lucien's eyes; the thrill of her frame seemed to answer to every movement of her companion. Whence comes this flame that radiates from a woman in love and distinguishes her above all others? Whence that sylph-like lightness which seems to negative the laws of gravitation? Is the soul become ambient? Has happiness a physical effluence?"

Perfect Shadow

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316196487
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Shadow written by Brent Weeks and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Also includes the short story, I, Nightangel. Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend: Acaelus Thorne, Yric the Black, Hrothan Steelbender, Tal Drakkan, Rebus Nimble. But when Gaelan must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena, what he finds may destroy everything he's ever believed in.

House of Shadows

Author : Nicola Cornick
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369719662
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book House of Shadows written by Nicola Cornick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House—a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite three women across four centuries in a tangle of intrigue, deceit and destiny… In the winter of 1662, Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, is on her deathbed. She entrusts an ancient pearl, rumored to have magic power, to her faithful cavalier William Craven for safekeeping. In his grief, William orders the construction of Ashdown Estate in her memory and places the pearl at its center. One hundred and fifty years later, notorious courtesan Lavinia Flyte hears the maids at Ashdown House whisper of a hidden treasure, and bears witness as her protector Lord Evershot—desperate to find it—burns the building to the ground. Now in the present day, a battered mirror and the diary of a Regency courtesan are the only clues Holly Ansell has to finding her brother, who has gone missing researching the mystery of Elizabeth Stuart and her alleged affair with Lord Craven. As she retraces his footsteps, Holly’s quest will soon reveal the truth about Lavinia and compel her to confront the stunning revelation about the legacy of the Winter Queen. Previously published.