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Verruchte Lust und Leidenschaft pur!Ans Bett gefesselt kann Adriane der in ihr aufkeimenden Lust nicht mehr wiederstehen und lässt sich hemmungslos von ihrer Pflegerin befrieden. Obszöne, zügellose Wünsche und Träume gehen Adriane durch den Kopf – so unschuldig wie ihr Körper sind ihre Gedanken längst nicht mehr.-
| Автор | Michael Martin |
¿Qué ocurre cuando un director de cine coincide en una cena con una actriz cuatro décadas menor y los recuerdos evocan pasiones casi extintas? Desde un presente nostálgico, la posibilidad de un encuentro desencadena el deseo de los personajes, unidos en una ilusión de película.
| Автор | Poli Délano |
Over the course of six critically acclaimed books—including a compelling meditation on Moby-Dick—Dan Beachy-Quick has established himself as “one of America’s most significant young poets” (Lyn Hejinian).In Wonderful Investigations, Beachy-Quick broaches “a hazy line, a faulty boundary” between our daily world and one rich with wonder; a magical world in which, through his work as a writer, Beachy-Quick participates with a...
| Автор | Dan Beachy-Quick |
A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O’Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.<br><br> A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these complex and contradictory times—set in...
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Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the Loft brings together the collected wisdom of that community — its authors, students, and editors — giving anyone the tools and inspiration necessary to thrive in the writing life. A who’s who of writers on writing...
| Автор | Daniel Slager |
This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from <i>A Fist Full,</i> published in 1957, through <i>Swirls in Asphalt,</i> a new poem sequence, <i>Of Indigo and Saffron i</i>s both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's...
| Автор | Michael McClure |
Der rätselhafte Fall um die Enthauptung des Wahrzeichens von Kopenhagen: Jeder kennt zumindest ein Bild der kleinen Meerjungfrau, wie sie so bescheiden in den Kopenhagener Gewässern unweit des Schlosses sitzt. Doch als Heinz Günther früh gegen 3.30 Uhr am 25. April 1964 seinen Blick gen Statue richtete, wollte er seinen Augen kaum trauen, als er die kopflose Meerjungfrau erblickte… Wer steckte hinter der Enthauptung? -
| Автор | Frederik Strand |
En el Polo Norte, Papá Noel trabaja todo el año para construir los juguetes que todos los niños del mundo reciben la noche de Navidad. Es un trabajo enorme, que no sólo requiere fantasía, sino también mucha habilidad y organización. Por suerte, los duendes del norte lo ayudan.
| Автор | Leyenda Escandinava |
Rylee está ansiosa por saldar su deuda, pero su libertad le costará mucho más de lo que imaginaba y junto a su mejor amiga Ánuk, deberán embarcarse en una aventura que las llevará más lejos de casa que nunca ¿Será Rylee capaz de pagar el precio de su futuro aún cuando signifique sacrificar el bien de todo un reino?
| Автор | Nina Rose |
The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain’s works, UC Press published <i>Autobiography of Mark Twain,</i> Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life’s work of America’s favorite author.<br /><br />This...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
Polymorphous Domesticities maps out the play of gender, sexuality, and alternative forms of domesticity in the works of four modern European and American writers—Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Colette, and J. R. Ackerley. What these four writers have in common is a defiance of patriarchal paradigms in their lives as well as in their works. Not only did they live outside the norms of the heterosexual family unit, they also pursued and wrote about alternative lifestyles that prominently involved...
| Автор | Juliana Schiesari |
The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers—like the Dalai Lama—adopt liberal and democratic ideals, such as natural rights and individual autonomy. In the first in-depth account of disciplinary practices at a Tibetan monastery in India, Michael Lempert...
| Автор | Michael Lempert |
Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, <i>Poetry in Pieces</i> is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all...
| Автор | Michelle Clayton |
Während Phil Glorias Titten streichelte, ihre Nippel drückte und sie so gut es ging zwischen Daumen und Zeigefinger nahm, spürte er, wie sie die Hand auf seine Hose gelegt hat und einen Augenblick lang verlor er bei der unerwarteten Berührung fast die Kontrolle.Nun stöhnten und keuchten beide Sie küssten sich, während ihre Hände einander liebkosten.-
| Автор | Vince de Luca |
Die dramatische Geschichte einer Landarbeiterfamilie kurz vor Ausbruch des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges: Jean Macquart, der sich als Wanderarbeiter und Tagelöhner durchschlägt, kommt in das kleine Dorf Rognes und verliebt sich dort in Françoise, die er später auch heiratet. Doch Buteau, ihr Schwager, hat auch ein Auge auf sie geworfen. Eine kompliziertes Erbangelegenheit, Eifersucht und Verlangen führen schließlich zu einem tragischen Ende…-
| Автор | Emile Zola |
An der Universität macht ein neues Institut auf: Erotik. Sie wird vom Kunstprofessor Clas von Eros geleitet, der keine Grenzen zu kennen scheint. Während des Seminars stellt er seine Studierenden vor alle möglichen Herausforderungen. Emma und Rebekka lernen sich im Seminar kennen. Rebekka ist eine sexy, wilde Künstlerseele. Emma und sie erforschen eine ganz neue Welt, die in Clas von Eros' wahnwitzigen Kurs für sie geöffnet wird.-
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. <i>Dear Mark Twain</i> collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world—children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates of mental institutions, con artists, and even a former president. It is a unique and groundbreaking book—the first published collection of reader letters to any writer of Mark...
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This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minority studies) and came to be called «the cultural turn.» Since the 1990s, however, the idea of culture has fallen out of scholarly favor. Susan Hegeman engages with a diversity of disciplines,...
| Автор | Susan Hegeman |
In <i>Flesh and Fish Blood</i> Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of the first extended explorations of representations of caste, including a critical consideration of Tamil Dalit (so-called untouchable) literature. Shankar shows how these vernacular...
| Автор | Subramanian Shankar |
Un sicario debe asesinar a la mujer que traicionó a un narcotraficante, luego de caer ambos en desgracia bajo su poderío. "La persistencia de la memoria" es una novela narrada por dos voces devastadas por el dolor, construida sobre detalladas descripciones –tan reales como oníricas– del Desierto de Atacama, entre las que el autor desliza precisas metáforas y simbolismos para atrapar, desde la primera página, al lector.
| Автор | Iván Ávila Pérez |
A Canadian Heroine is a romance novel that features the story of a 16-year-old woman living in a small town along the St. Lawrence, courted by a Canadian man, who has her suitor. However, she becomes enamored of a visiting English aristocrat, whose interest might not be sincere. The story is an allegory for what the author perceived as the naivety of the new world and the corruption of the old.
| Автор | Mrs. Harry Coghill |
