![]() ![]() And what began as an amusement to give the plain, timid miss an innocent thrill is turning into much more, as St. Claire discovers this conquest may be more challenging than expected when the thoughtful and intelligent Celestine begins to fire an ache in his own heart. When he learns on his annual Christmas visit that the drab Celestine was hired as governess solely to thwart his dalliances, he devises a scheme to both stir her heart and spite his family’s interfering ways.īut as his game unfolds, the cunning St. Claire Richmond, Langlow’s brother, is a rogue and seducer, content to while away his days pursuing pleasure-and driving his brother and sister-in-law mad by reducing their female staff to lovelorn fools with his flirtations. Never one to bemoan her change in fortune, Celestine is content to spend her days raising and overseeing their children, knowing in her heart she will never have any of her own. ![]() ![]() From the author of Reforming the Rogue comes a full-length Classic Regency Romance novel celebrating the witty and romantic world first introduced by Jane Austen.Ĭelestine Simons was of good family, but an untimely death and a shortage of funds forces the homely spinster to take a position as governess at the estate of Lord Langlow and his wife. ![]()
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In The Cunning of the Dove, this masterly author chooses Edward the Confessor as his hero. Alfred Duggan's Saxon novels have a special cachet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion January 2009 DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226768670.001.0001 ISBN: 9780226768656 Authors: María de Zayas y Sotomayor María de. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics-gender equality and domestic violence-written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. ![]() But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. ![]() The wolf road by beth lewis7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wolf Road is an intimate, cat-and-mouse tale of justice and revenge, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape-told by an unforgettable, tough-as-nails young heroine whose struggle to escape the terrors of her past and rejoin humanity are at once horrifying and heartbreaking. If Elka's going to survive, she'll have to turn and confront not just him, but the truth about what he's turned her into. But judging by the trail of blood and bodies dogging her footsteps, daddy won't be letting his little girl go without a fight. ![]() Armed with nothing but her knife and the survival skills he's taught her, Elka makes her escape and sets out on a journey to the frozen north in the hope of finding her long-lost parents. ![]() And now that Elka knows the truth, she too is in danger. The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscapetold by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and. But the man Elka thought she knew so well is harboring a terrible secret. He has taught her how to shoot, track, set snares, and start fires-all the skills she needs to survive in a frozen, lawless land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy of the elements and each other. Everything Elka knows of the world she learned from the man she calls father, the solitary hunter who took her under his wing when she was just seven years old. True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller-narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Fans of books looking for an intimate peek into the life of a man who summoned a dark scary version of Sweden will not be disappointed. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson's readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson's readers' most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn't know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women. In "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. ![]() Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. ![]() Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Adrian is running through the countryside, hoping and praying that Nora, his beloved, has not married another. ![]() When they have good history in them, it's even better. She finds romance novels to be perfect antidotes to the heaviness of her research and her activism. In her remaining time, she devours romance novels, specifically those set in the English regency period, though not necessarily so. She also is a reproductive rights activist and blogger. Jessica is a trained historian of slavery and the early modern English empire and is currently working towards her PhD. One of them is Jessica Luther, who is on Twitter as Jessica likes romance, particularly historicals, and she asked if she could review a Meredith Duran novel she loved for me. Over the past few months, I've increased my Twitter following to include political commentators, feminist news sources, various Hulks, and people whom I've ended up chatting with about subjects only tangentially related to romance novels. ![]() Books like the starless sea7/7/2023 ![]() I can see why this book was so heavily recommended, but it wasn’t for me. It was in those chapters I was the most connected to the novel. Not just because of the narration, I love the epistolary format. ![]() Her chapters were the most interesting as Katrina Hawkins was my favorite character. ![]() I did enjoy the narration and was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of Bahni Turpin. And worse I could see the strings, the muscle of it, and that made it kind of a drag. I could see, even feel the lines in it, constantly reminding me that I was listening to a story. And even though the pieces still fit together, there are chasms where it was cut. ![]() It was like Morgenstern had an idea for a story and then rather than write it, she turned it inside out and cut it into pieces. Interesting for sure, but also, afterward, the magic is gone. This book felt like a magician revealing his tricks. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, they had to endure a horrible fate, with less food and lot of work. ![]() She was only 14 years old when the First World War came to an end, married at 17, had 3 boys and when the Second War World started, She and her family have been deported to Siberia. This story follows the life of Anița Nandriș Cudla, since She was a child until she's an old woman. "Based on Anita Nandriș’s riveting memoirs of her forced deportation to Siberia during the WWII, this emotionally charged monodrama follows one of the most admired women in Romanian contemporary history from her courageous involvement in the anti-communist resistance movement to the exile in the infamous Soviet Gulag and the subsequent repatriation, after years of struggle and hope. 20 Years in Siberia is an essential tale of dignity and redemption in the face of the century’s most devastating evil." Ģ0 Years in Siberia by Anița Nandriș Cudla. ![]() As i lay dying author7/6/2023 ![]() Though everyone lives in their own isolation, Darl is the only one who seems to notice or care about the issues of others. The most well-spoken and open of the Bundren family. When they finally make it to Jefferson and Anse has his new teeth, he meets a woman who he immediately makes his new wife, seemingly forgetting that Addie ever existed. His only two goals in life seem to be burying Addie in Jefferson and getting a new set of false teeth. The children all resent him for being a poor father and he may be partially to blame for their various issues. He is lazy and selfish and works as a farmer, when he wants to work. ![]() The Patriarch of the Bundren family and father to all of the children except Addie’s favorite, Jewel. She has the last laugh when she asks her family to make a pointless trip to Jefferson to bury her body. She has an affair in an attempt to break the monotony of life and even then gets pregnant, further proving to herself that she is only on the earth to produce offspring. She is locked into a life that she has only resentment for, feeling as though her only purpose in life has been to bear children. ![]() She begins the story on her death bed and soon passes away. The disappointed, bitter, and unsatisfied matriarch of the Bundren clan. ![]() |