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Book Synopsis Violette Between by : Alison Strobel
Download or read book Violette Between written by Alison Strobel and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautifully wrought tale full of characters that live and breathe. This surprising story from Strobel, a bold and engaging storyteller, left me sighing with pleasure and wanting more. She's not to be missed." —CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY, author of Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man Between here and the past, there lies a place—a place of longing for what has been rather than hoping for what could be. A true artist, Violette is passionate and emotional. Climbing back into life after suffering a loss, she teeters on the precipice of a new relationship with Christian, a psychologist who not only understands her struggles but offers safety and his heart. As Violette and Christian begin to feel something they both thought impossible, tragedy strikes again. Violette becomes trapped in a place of past memories—and she finds that she may not want to come back. What would it be like to choose a place between the past and the present?
Download or read book Violette Nozière written by Sarah C. Maza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Maza has written a vivid, gripping and clear-eyed account of the celebrated Violette Nozière case, which captivated French society in the 1930s. A bold and imaginative story, Violette Nozière opens an unexpected and revealing window onto interwar Parisian life." — Colin Jones, author of Paris: Biography of a City “Sarah Maza's absorbing new book on Violette Nozière--flapper, fantasist, and perpetrator of one of the most sordid and sensational French homicides of the 1930s—is a scholarly 'true crime' tale of the most intelligent sort. Why might a seemingly respectable little mademoiselle from a 'nice' bourgeois family want to poison her maman et papa at the breakfast table? Alongside her riveting account of the crime and its aftermath, Maza investigates the various pathologies—familial, social, economic, cultural, psychosexual—that may have figured in the mayhem. (At her trial Nozière claimed, among other things, that her father had sexually abused her for years.) The result is both a fascinating case history—Greek tragedy rewritten as seedy policier—and a chilling glimpse into the less salubrious aspects of French lower middle-class life between the wars.” — Terry Castle, author of The Professor "One of those rare and sophisticated works that tells a gripping story while evoking a complex historical period. There exist very few cultural histories of the interwar years."—Carolyn Dean, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust “Sarah Maza's book tells an arresting story that deftly combines conventional social history with a subtle analysis of gender and culture. Using all the arts of the best storytellers, she is careful not to give too much away, and it is only with time and a remarkable conclusion that we realize that Violette Nozière is no ordinary tale.” — Ruth Harris, author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
Download or read book Violette written by Tania Szabó and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting sabotage missions, being embroiled in gun battles and battling betrayal. On her second mission she was captured by the Nazis, interrogated and tortured, then deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. Violette was one of the first women ever to be awarded the George Cross, and her fascinating life has been immortalised in film and on the page. Written by her daughter, Violette (formerly Young, Brave and Beautiful) reveals the woman and mother behind this extraordinary hero.
Download or read book Violette written by Maude Mary Butler and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violette Noziere written by Sarah Maza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette’s act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era—discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.
Book Synopsis Crowns & Kilts: The St. Briac Family, Collection Two - Kilts (Abducted at the Altar, Return of the Lost Bride, Quest of the Highlander) by : Cynthia Wright
Download or read book Crowns & Kilts: The St. Briac Family, Collection Two - Kilts (Abducted at the Altar, Return of the Lost Bride, Quest of the Highlander) written by Cynthia Wright and published by Boxwood Manor Books. This book was released on with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time with Cynthia Wright and immerse yourself in a world of knights, castles, and Highlanders…where adventure, romance, and humor all conspire to weave tales you will never forget! Meet the St. Briac family and their friends in Crowns & Kilts: Collection Two – Kilts. ABDUCTED AT THE ALTAR – Scotland & France, 1538 – In 16th century Scotland, a vibrant lass from the Isle of Skye crosses paths with a charismatic French outlander. Destiny beckons, but dark forces are conspiring to keep them apart… RETURN OF THE LOST BRIDE – Scotland & France, 1540 – Proud Highlander Ciaran MacLeod is falling in love...with Violette, the plain lass he wed for convenience. But when the honor of his clan is at stake, will he put her aside for another? QUEST OF THE HIGHLANDER – Scotland & England, 1541 – On a quest for his true identity, Lennox MacLeod sets out from the Isle of Skye and meets beguiling tapestry weaver, Nora Brodie, at Stirling Castle. He helps her flee, but when truths are uncovered in Tudor London, can their budding love withstand the powerful winds of fate? This collection contains three magnificent, full-length novels from Crowns & Kilts: The St. Briac Family: 1526: YOU & NO OTHER (Thomas & Aimée) 1532: OF ONE HEART (Andrew & Micheline) 1538: ABDUCTED AT THE ALTAR (Christophe & Fiona) 1539: RETURN OF THE LOST BRIDE (Ciaran & Violette) 1541: QUEST OF THE HIGHLANDER (Lennox & Nora) The St. Briac Family in the Regency: THE SECRET OF LOVE (Gabriel & Isabella) HIS MAKE-BELIEVE BRIDE (Justin & Mouette) coming in 2021… HER IMPOSSIBLE HUSBAND (Justin & Mouette)
Download or read book The She Spot written by Lisa Witter and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The She Spot" offers a practical--and provocative--primer on how nonprofit and advocacy organizations can strengthen their outreach to women.
Book Synopsis Age Rage and Going Gently by : Oliver Davis
Download or read book Age Rage and Going Gently written by Oliver Davis and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse, and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Hervé Guibert's recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise, is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury ('age rage') and serene acceptance ('going gently'), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject.
Book Synopsis Thérèse and Isabelle by : Violette Leduc
Download or read book Thérèse and Isabelle written by Violette Leduc and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this “masterpiece on the tyranny of love” (Independent, UK). “Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse and Isabelle proves an authentic and liberating exploration of queer sensibilities, which still stands as “one of the greatest examples of French-Language erotic literature” ever written (Times Literary Supplement). Censored for half a century for its vivid depiction of budding female sexuality, this is the “dark and luminous” (Nicole Borssard) novel of two young women in the consuming and at times frightening throes of first love. Navigating their schoolgirl relationship becomes a rapturous secret, as they sneak away from repressive boundaries to go beyond the limits of friendship with “all the raw urgency of female adolescent sexuality: its energy and intensity, the push-pull of excitement, its dangers and glories” (Kate Millett, award-winning author of Sexual Politics and Mother Millett). Filmed in 1968 by Radley Metzger, starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël, Thérèse and Isabelle is finally available as it was intended to be read. “I have waited a very long time to slip back into the unexpurgated, delicious darkness with these iconic lesbian lovers” (Amber Dawn, Lambda Literary Award-winning author Sodom Road Exit).
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Petroleum Investigation. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Pursuant to H. Res. 15 and H. Res. 118 (77th Cong.) ... March 27 - April 2, 1941 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Download or read book Petroleum Investigation. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Pursuant to H. Res. 15 and H. Res. 118 (77th Cong.) ... March 27 - April 2, 1941 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Batarde written by Violette LeDuc and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A confession that contains portraits of several famous French authors, this book is more than just a scintillating memoir—like that of Henry Miller, Leduc’s brilliant writing style and attention to language transform this autobiography into a work of art.
Download or read book The Poultry Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Swear I Won't Bother You Again! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by : Reina Soratani
Download or read book I Swear I Won't Bother You Again! (Light Novel) Vol. 1 written by Reina Soratani and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violette, daughter of a duke, committed a terrible, jealous crime against her half-sister. As she languishes in prison, something unexpected happens: time is rewound, sending her back to the day her problems began! Armed with the memories of her disastrous first go-round, Violette is determined to live a quiet, unobtrusive life this time...but fate has something else in store!
Book Synopsis French Women Writers by : Eva Martin Sartori
Download or read book French Women Writers written by Eva Martin Sartori and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie de France, Mme. De Sävignä, and Mme. De Lafayette achieved international reputations during periods when women in other European countries were able to write only letters, translations, religious tracts, and miscellaneous fragments. There were obstacles, but French women writers were more or less sustained and empowered by the French culture. Often unconventional in their personal lives and occupied with careers besides writing?as educators, painters, actresses, preachers, salon hostesses, labor organizers?these women did not wait for Simone de Beauvoir to tell them to make existential choices and have "projects in the world." French Women Writers describes the lives and careers of fifty-two literary figures from the twelfth century to the late twentieth. All the contributors are recognized authorities. Some of their subjects, like Colette and George Sand, are celebrated, and others are just now gaining critical notice. From Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre to Rachilde and Häl_ne Cixous, from Louise Labe to Marguerite Duras?these women speak through the centuries to issues of gender, sexuality, and language. French Women Writers now becomes widely available in this Bison Book edition.
Book Synopsis Violette v. Gaertner, 261 MICH 6 (1932) by :
Download or read book Violette v. Gaertner, 261 MICH 6 (1932) written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 81
Download or read book LGBT Victorians written by Simon Joyce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other, on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self-identification. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition. LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process, it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
