Curious Pleasures

Author : Rev'd Dr Eramus St Jude Croom DD
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448132177
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious Pleasures written by Rev'd Dr Eramus St Jude Croom DD and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best libraries in Victorian Britain kept this tome under lock and key, permitting access only to doctors and professors. Scotland Yard had a copy in their reference library, and even Sherlock Holmes may have had recourse to a copy in certain investigations. In private collections across the English speaking world, it was kept on top shelves, or safely stowed in locked cabinets, beyond the reach of minors, domestics and spouses. Any woman who gazed upon its pages was said to have fainted away. The church campaigned to have it banned and the German translation was burned at Nuremberg. Many antiquarian book sellers believe the book to have been a myth, others claimed it changed hands at enormous cost, and some are certain all original copies are now lost. But Curious Pleasures does exist and is back in print - nearly a century since it's last apocryphal edition. This encyclopaedic treasure of adult pleasures, dysfunctions and unacceptable female behaviour has been fully restored with the original illustrations intact. In modern hands, this forbidden work of scholarly madness will prove hilarious.

Author : Sloane Britain
Publisher : She Winked Press
ISBN 13 : 1936456265
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book These Curious Pleasures written by Sloane Britain and published by She Winked Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A* Sloane works as a secretary to a New York television producer. She lives in the Village and enjoys cruising the bars at night for one-night stands with women she doesn’t know. She has a few part-time lovers she sees on a semi-regular basis, but hasn’t found the woman who would steal her heart… until she meets Allison, a young actress. Sloane’s boss has hired the young woman to star in the pilot for a new television series. Sparks fly immediately between Sloane and Allison, the young actress having had experiences with women as well. Their relationship builds slowly, as Allison doesn’t want to become too involved until after the pilot is shot. She is convinced the intensity of the relationship will distract her from her work. Sloane, who realizes she is close to falling head over heels, becomes extremely frustrated and vents that frustration by spending the night with one of her part-time lovers. At the end of filming, Sloane’s boss throws a huge party at his mansion in the country to celebrate. They were celebrating the completion of the pilot... and Allison’s debut as a star. The party was wild and drunken... and then it got out of hand, pushing both Sloane and Allison to the very edge of darkness. Would their fragile new-found love be torn apart? Or would they fight for that love, and overcome inner demons and the harsh glare of the television industry’s lights for the chance at a life together?

Author : Peter Brooker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317903560
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory written by Peter Brooker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524749141
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Pleasure written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Author : James Sully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Author : Alexander Pope
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : JAMES BRANCH CAMBELL
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
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