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Unfinished Seductions

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Seductions written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire husband and the estranged wife he never stopped loving… Callie: I only ever wanted to be the perfect wife. To prove to myself and a short-term world that Logan and I had a forever love. I was wrong. The harder I tried to be flawless, the farther apart we grew, until I never saw my husband. At least not at home—but definitely in the pages of gossip rags with beautiful women in his orbit, like in his playboy bachelor days. So I ran before my heart could break completely. But Logan’s found me… and he refuses to let me disappear again. Logan: I only ever wanted to be the perfect husband. To prove I could succeed where my dad hadn’t and provide my wife with everything she could ever want. I failed. The harder I worked, the more I made, the more I gave to her, the farther away Callie drifted. Until one day she was gone and my entire world went black. But I never stopped searching for her. When I find her, we reignite the passion between us—and uncover a whisper campaign to destroy our marriage. Finding who’s responsible and making them pay will be the easy part. Convincing Callie to give our marriage a second chance… that will be hardest fight of my life. Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) tech billionaire workplace office silicon valley marriage in trouble san francisco romance tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon standalone

Bastard Capital: Volume One

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bastard Capital: Volume One written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Secret Acquisitions (Book One) A sizzling romance about a second chance with the billionaire who got away. Unfinished Seductions (Book Two) A passionate romance about a billionaire husband and the estranged wife he never stopped loving. Competitive Instincts (Book Three) An enticing romance about a bad boy billionaire with a quicksilver mind and a secret heart of gold. beauty beast forced proximity romance billionaire office billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic second chance comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling novel enemies lovers thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon standalone boxed set

The Art Of Seduction

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651402
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Art Of Seduction written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

Intimate Mergers

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Mergers written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire prince and the fake engagement that feels all too real… Grace: When I landed a job at a big-name tech company, it was like winning a golden ticket. At least until I uncovered a massive conspiracy and my golden ticket became a golden cage. Now I’m jobless and about to be deported. Imagine my surprise when Paul, the handsome Prince Charming of Bastard Capital, comes riding to my rescue. But then his mom, the Ice Queen, sweeps in and we’re suddenly pretending to be engaged. And my ex-employer acts like a big, bad troll and Paul saves me again. Fairy tales aren’t real, and I’m not princess, but Paul’s got me believing in the impossible… Paul: I’m a Bastard—the well bred, old money one. So when my mother shows up with an engagement ring and her unlucky choice of bride in tow, I don’t tell her to get lost. Instead, I spin a white lie about the wonderful woman I’m already engaged to. Grace is only too happy to take the deal—she fakes being in love and I set her up like royalty back home. She’s the perfect pretend fiancée: gracious, canny, and leaving very soon. But Grace turns out to be more than just an easy solution, with her sarcastic one liners, love of pro wrestling, and scorching hot kisses. And now I’m determined to make my fake fiancée my very real lover… Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) fake engagement tech silicon valley billionaire office workplace romance tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon

Bastard Capital: Volume Two

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bastard Capital: Volume Two written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Intimate Mergers (Book Four) A sultry standalone romance about a billionaire prince and the fake engagement that feels all too real. Hostile Attractions (Book Five) A smoldering standalone romance about a hard-ass billionaire and the enemy he won’t trust—but can’t resist. Private Disclosures (Book Six) A heart-wrenching standalone about a mysterious billionaire and the woman he’s done waiting for. boxed box set collection beauty beast forced proximity romance billionaire office billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic second chance comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling novel enemies lovers thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon standalone

Secret Acquisitions

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Acquisitions written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second chance with the billionaire who got away… January: I need a billionaire. Fast. When I stumble onto a tech giant’s plot to spy on everyone’s phones, I know my security company is only one who can stop them. But my little start up needs money. Lots of it. Enter Mark Taylor, the hottest venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. And the only billionaire I know on a personal level. And the guy I reluctantly turned down in college. I’m in his office and ready to beg… but he’s not the forgive and forget type. Mark: I never hear the word no. Not since I remade myself from a skinny nerd into the deal making playboy of Bastard Capital. January was the last woman to tell me no—and the one woman I can’t forget. She’s as enticing as ever, so I offer her a deal: I say yes to her in the boardroom and she says yes to me in the bedroom. A quick, scorching affair is exactly what I need to get her out of my system. But when a shadowy conspiracy threatens her company—and the privacy of everybody—all my protective instincts flare to life. And this quick affair is suddenly much deeper than we’d ever expected… Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) office workplace billionaire tech silicon valley sexy hot second chance romantic suspense contemporary san francisco venture capital romance tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon standalone

Hostile Attractions

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hostile Attractions written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hard-ass billionaire and the enemy he won’t trust—but can’t resist… Minerva: I’m utterly lost. I’ve been so deep undercover for so long that when I escape with evidence of my boss’s crimes, there’s no one to turn to. Except for him: Elliot Martell. My worst enemy and the last person who’d hide me. Which makes him the perfect cover, and when he sees what I’ve got on my boss, he’ll have to help me. But it turns out Elliot is so tightly wound he doesn’t know who he is either. And if my employer doesn’t disappear me first, we might find ourselves together. Elliot: I’d do anything to protect my brothers—both my blood brother and the ones I’ve made at Bastard Capital. If that makes me a hard ass, so be it. When Minerva shows up on my doorstep, claiming to hold the key to bringing down our nemesis, my first instinct is to throw her out. My second is to drag her to my bed. Instead, I clamp down on all of it, because if she’s telling the truth, I need her. And it’s not like I’m going to sleep with the enemy. But as she reveals more about her mission, trusting me to keep her secrets safe, I realize she’s not my enemy. In fact, she might become my everything… Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) tech silicon valley billionaire enemies to lovers san francisco workplace office romantic suspense romance tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon

Private Disclosures

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Disclosures written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious billionaire and the woman he’s done waiting for… Anjie: Dev drew me irresistibly from the moment I saw him. But after five years of working with him, I still don’t understand what drives him. When he breaks with the rest of Bastard Capital, I realize that no one knows him—not even the men he should be closest to. When the chance comes for us to finally act on our simmering attraction, I have to say no. A man that closed off will only break my heart. No matter how badly I want to break into his… Dev: There’re only two things to know about me: my past is a complete mystery to me, and Anjie’s the only woman I’ve ever wanted. I’ve cut away everything in pursuit of my past. I’ve even made deals with my greatest enemy. And to win Anjie, I’ll make a deal with the devil himself if I have to. Everything I’ve ever wanted is almost in reach. Once I’ve got the truth about my family and her, I’ll never let go. No matter who threatens them… Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) tech silicon valley office workplace second chance slowburn venture capital san francisco romance tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon

Competitive Instincts

Author : Raleigh Davis
Publisher : Penny Bright Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competitive Instincts written by Raleigh Davis and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bad boy billionaire with a quicksilver mind and a secret heart of gold… Ramona (aka Doc): I’ve got troubles: a wrongly convicted brother, an empty bank account, and a hopeless crusade I can’t abandon. Finn, the bad boy of Bastard Capital, is smoking hot, amazingly funny, and dead brilliant—and trouble with a capital T. Exactly what I don’t need. Except I can’t stop thinking about his massive… brain and his nimble… wit. But Mr. Trouble is also the world’s greatest hacker and the only person who can access the evidence of my brother’s innocence. I’ll do anything for that, including tangling with a man who might snare my heart forever. Finn: Doc’s got a smart mouth, a stunning body, and a fantastically sharp mind. She’d be the perfect woman, except for the fact that we have explosive chemistry and she refuses to act on it. When I unearth proof that her brother was set up, it’s the perfect excuse to get closer. I’m going to prove my brand of bad is oh so good for her. After a few (slightly illegal) break ins and some (super illegal) data theft, it becomes clear we’re up against an old enemy. And I’m terrified I’m not strong enough to fight him and hold onto Doc at the same time… Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power. Binge read the complete series now! Books in the Bastard Capital Series Secret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark’s story) Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan’s story) Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn’s story) Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul’s story) Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot’s story) Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev’s story) tech silicon valley billionaire romance enemies to lovers rivals san francisco office workplace billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic silicon valley venture capital romance enemies lovers rivals novel comedy alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon

Modes of Seduction

Author : Deborah Houk Schocket
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640432
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Seduction written by Deborah Houk Schocket and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its examination of Balzac's and Sand's representations of seduction from the perspectives of feminism, psycho-analysis, and cultural studies, this book sheds lights on erotic relations and the ways in which they are embedded in wider issues of subjectivity and political and social structures."--Jacket.

Sunset Seduction

Author : Charlene Sands
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373732465
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Sunset Seduction written by Charlene Sands and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night she'll never forget…is a night he can't remember Audrey Thomas can't forget the night of passion she shared with Lucas Slade, the man she's loved for years. But it seems the sexy, superrich rancher has no clue who warmed his bed! The mystery seductress at his Lake Tahoe retreat was Audrey? His best friend's off-limits kid sister? Now she's back at Sunset Ranch…and having his baby! Honor bound to do the right thing, Lucas never reckons she'll say I won't to his proposal—or that she'll settle for nothing less than all this cowboy has to give.

Work's Intimacy

Author : Melissa Gregg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745637469
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Work's Intimacy written by Melissa Gregg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment. Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that new media technologies encourage and exacerbate an older tendency among salaried professionals to put work at the heart of daily concerns, often at the expense of other sources of intimacy and fulfillment. New media technologies from mobile phones to laptops and tablet computers, have been marketed as devices that give us the freedom to work where we want, when we want, but little attention has been paid to the consequences of this shift, which has seen work move out of the office and into cafés, trains, living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. This professional "presence bleed" leads to work concerns impinging on the personal lives of employees in new and unforseen ways. This groundbreaking book explores how aspiring and established professionals each try to cope with the unprecedented intimacy of technologically-mediated work, and how its seductions seem poised to triumph over the few remaining relationships that may stand in its way.

The Cinderella Seduction

Author : Hope Tarr
Publisher : Entangled: Indulgence
ISBN 13 : 1622663209
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book The Cinderella Seduction written by Hope Tarr and published by Entangled: Indulgence. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek tycoon Nikolaos Costas has a debt to collect from the Stefanopoulos family and he won't leave until he gets his money. Stefanie Stefanopoulos has been tasked with entertaining-i.e. distracting-him while he's in town, all in hopes of getting him to forgive the debt. She may not be an ugly duckling, but she's a far cry from her petite stepsisters and she knows that the gorgeous playboy won't even notice her. It doesn't stop her from wanting him to, though. Four months ago, Nick's bachelor-style life was turned upside down. Now the sole parent to a seven-year-old daughter he never knew existed, Nick doesn't have time for pleasure. But he hadn't factored in Stefanie or the intense attraction he'd feel for her. As her seduction heats up, so do the stakes, both professionally and romantically. Can he let business go long enough to allow Stefanie into his heart?

Shelley's Textual Seductions

Author : Samuel Lyndon Gladden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317240391
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Shelley's Textual Seductions written by Samuel Lyndon Gladden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic relationships as both an exemplar of the inequities of power and a paradigm for alternative social orders that dismantle oppressive structures, it argues Shelley’s work imagines a space where the rigidity of tyranny succumbs to the liberation of ecstatic union. From the Romantics to the Aesthetes, it argues that this model contributed to a counter-tradition in British literature which situates the erotic as a trope for political discourse. This work will be of interest to students of literature.

The Seduction of Water

Author : Carol Goodman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345450914
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Seduction of Water written by Carol Goodman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside it is the sad story of her death. It captures the attention of her mother’s former literary agent, who is convinced that Katherine wrote one final manuscript before her strange, untimely end in a fire thirty years ago. So Iris goes back to the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, the place where she grew up, to write her mother’s biography and search for the missing manuscript—and there she unravels a haunting mystery, one that holds more secrets than she ever expected. . . .

Literary Seductions

Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466875747
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Literary Seductions written by Frances Wilson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many of us go to on-line chat rooms, looking for love with our keyboard. And most of us have tried to seduce with words--reciting that Shakespeare sonnet or composing that Valentine's Day poem with tremulous hope. All writing seeks to ensnare the reader in its embrace. As Frances Wilson also proves in this engaging, enlightening, and provocative new book, writing can also ensnare the writers themselves. Highlighting the lives and loves of celebrated literary couples, Literary Seductions reveals the depth of their passion for language--their own as well as their partner's. Taking as a point of departure the legendary courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, a courtship conceived on the printed page, Wilson explores how easily, how seductively, literary desire becomes sexual desire and vice versa. "Literary seductions," she writes, are "violent, extreme, and irreversible." Not all reading seduces, not all writing inflames. But when they do, what is written ceases to be merely an arrangement of symbols on a page. The word has been made flesh. Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, Osip and Nadzheda Mandelstam, W. B. and Georgie Yeats were all in the grip of a compulsion for writing and reading, enmeshed in words. Miller called his relationship with Nin, a "literary fuck-fest"; for Riding and Graves, it took on the self-destructive (and self-conscious) melodrama of a Russian novel; for the Mandelstams, it was a life-giving (if self-sacrificing) bond in a precarious world; for George and W. B. Yeats, it offered sexual stimulus. The couplings of verbs and nouns do more than precede coupling; they comprise it. Literary Seductions is itself a seductive book. The elegant power of Wilson's arguments, the rigor of her research, and the delights of her prose enthrall the reader. Here is intellectual engagement and readerly pleasure rolled into one.

Discourses of Seduction

Author : Hosea Hirata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174066
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Seduction written by Hosea Hirata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the postmodernist ethical onslaught has led to the demise of literature by exposing its political agenda, if all literature is compromised by its entanglement with power, why does literature’s subterranean voice still seduce us into reading? Why do the madness and the scandal of transgressive literature, its power to force us to begin anew, its evil, escape the gaze of contemporary literary criticism? Why do we dare not reject ethics and the ethical approach to literature? If the primary task of literary criticism is to correct others’ ethical missteps, should we not begin by confronting the seductiveness of ethics, our desire for ethics, the pleasure we take in being ethical? And what is the relationship between ethics and history in the study of literature? What would be the ethical consequences of an erasure of history from literary criticism? In a series of essays on the writings of Kawabata Yasunari, Murakami Haruki, Karatani Kjin, Furui Yoshikichi, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, Natsume Soseki, and Kobayashi Hideo, Hosea Hirata visits the primal force of the scandalous in an effort to repeat (in the Kierkegaardian sense) the originary scene that initiates the obscure yet insistent poetry that is literature and to confront the questions raised."