Woman In Her Infinite Variety

Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618224883
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Louis Auchincloss and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America: the devilish, forever plotting, yet wholly beguiling Clara Hoyt. A romantic early in life, Clara gets engaged--much to her mother's horror--to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the boardrooms of the publishing world. In a world where women still had to wield the weapons of allure and charm, above all else, to secure positions of power, Clara, one of the last of her kind, succeeds marvelously. Auchincloss gives us, in Clara, an irresistible Cleopatra, lovely, wily, and mercurial. As Shakespeare wrote of that feminine creation, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."

Author : Pamela Rafael Berkman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743215729
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Pamela Rafael Berkman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand her love for Hamlet, and to Shakespeare's Stratford home, where his daughter Judith deliberately enters into a shameful marriage. At the center of this remarkable book is Shakespeare's enduring love for Anne Hathaway, his beautiful, passionate, illiterate wife. Together, the masterfully interwoven stories of Her Infinite Variety bring to life a Shakespeare who was formed by the women he loved -- and who loved him.

Author : Brand Whitlock
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041205922
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Brand Whitlock and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her Infinite Variety" by Brand Whitlock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Pamela Rafael Berkman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743215729
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Pamela Rafael Berkman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand her love for Hamlet, and to Shakespeare's Stratford home, where his daughter Judith deliberately enters into a shameful marriage. At the center of this remarkable book is Shakespeare's enduring love for Anne Hathaway, his beautiful, passionate, illiterate wife. Together, the masterfully interwoven stories of Her Infinite Variety bring to life a Shakespeare who was formed by the women he loved -- and who loved him.

Author : Brand Whitlock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Brand Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antony & Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Graham Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in Her Infinite Variety written by George Graham Currie and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782435581
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Library written by Oliver Tearle and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world.

Author : Scot D. Ryersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517903718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Scot D. Ryersson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United States by Viridian Books, New York, 1999; first published in Great Britain by Pimlico, an imprint of Random House Group UK, 2000; first University of Minnesota Press edition published in 2004"--Title page verso.

Author : Madhavi Menon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693289
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Madhavi Menon and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.'--Shohini Ghosh 'The history of desire in India, ' writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, 'reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life. Not one answer, but many. Not a single history, but multiple tales cutting across laws and boundaries.' In Bhakti poetry, Radha and Krishna disregard marital fidelity, age, time and gender for erotic love. In Sufi dargahs, pirs (spiritual guides) who were married to women are buried alongside their male disciples, as lovers are. Vatsyayana, author of the world's most famous manual of sex, insists that he did not compose it 'for the sake of passion', and remained celibate through the writing of it. Long hair is widely seen as a symbol of sexuality; and yet, shaved off in a temple, it is a sacred offering. Even as the country has a draconian law to punish homosexuality, heterosexual men share the same bed without comment. Hijras are increasingly marginalized; yet gender has historically been understood as fluid rather than fixed. Menon navigates centuries, geographies, personal and public histories, schools of philosophy, literary and cinematic works, as she examines the many--and often surprising--faces of desire in the Indian subcontinent. Her study ranges from the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho to the shrine of the celibate god Ayyappan; from army barracks to public parks; from Empress Nur Jahan's paan to home-made kohl; from cross-dressing mystics to androgynous gods. It shows us the connections between grammar and sex, between hair and war, between abstinence and pleasure, between love and death. Gloriously subversive, full of extraordinary analyses and insights, this is a book you will read to be enlightened and entertained for years.