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Prickelnde Kurzgeschichte, die Lust auf eine erotische Massage macht…Ein älterer Mann, der weiß, was er tut – schon lange hat sie von einem solchen Liebhaber geträumt. Jetzt ist es endlich soweit und ein Treffen mit einem attraktiven 49-Jährigen ausgemacht. Der gelernte Masseur kann ihr nicht nur genau den Genuss bereiten, den sie braucht, sondern zeigt ihr auch, wie erotisch eine Massage sein!-
| Автор | Malin Edholm |
Hacía siete años, Caroline se había enamorado y había hecho el amor con Luis Vázquez. Pero, pensando que él la había traicionado, se había marchado con la idea de no volver a verlo.Sin embargo, en ese momento, como el padre de Caroline le debía dinero a Luis, ella había tenido que regresar a España, donde se había visto forzada a aceptar la proposición de matrimonio de Luis.Pero casarse con él era una cosa… y volver a enamorarse, otra muy distinta.
| Автор | Michelle Reid |
The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation’s first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks riverboat celebration, and the May Festival, there’s another side to the city—one that includes some of the most famous names and organizations in American letters. Literary Cincinnati fills in this missing chapter, taking the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have...
| Автор | Dale Patrick Brown |
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From...
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"Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts." -Islamic Horizons"Ahmad Gunny has been a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological...
| Автор | Ahmad Gunny |
In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. In essays that take wide-ranging forms—making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes—contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned...
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This eBook edition of «The Complete Novels of George Eliot» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels: Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Romola Felix Holt, the Radical Middlemarch Daniel Deronda George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals – Biography
| Автор | George Eliot |
During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of...
| Автор | Megan A. Norcia |
The midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest. Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, ...
| Автор | William Barillas |
Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought–provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience. With contributions from fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers, this is a collection of unusual breadth and quality. Contributors: Lee K. Abbott, Rick Bass, Claire Bateman, Charles Baxter, Ron Carlson, Billy Collins, Peter Ho Davies, Carl Dennis,...
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By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott’s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann’s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship’s Offerings, Keepsakes, and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the...
| Автор | Katherine D. Harris |
Der Römer Sempronius ist unglücklich verliebt und macht sich mit seinem griechischen Freund Kallias auf, diese Liebe zu finden. Der Skeptiker Kallias spottet dabei mit seiner kalten Philosophie den Sehnsüchten Sempronius. Im Tempel der Diana von Ephesus treffen Sie einen Zauberer, der sie tief in den Tempel führt. Ein leidenschaftliches und philosophisches Abenteuer über das Leben und die Liebe für Freunde der Klassik und der Romantik.
| Автор | Charles Baudelaire |
Hubo una vez, hace muchos siglos, un joven caballero, valiente y leal a su Emperador, tan apuesto y aguerrido, que arrebataba el corazón de todas las damas de aquella corte, y tan hábil con las palabras y requiebros de amor, que llegó a descubrir su corazón en sus versos. Y se convirtió así en el primer poeta del antiguo reino. Esta pudo ser su historia.
| Автор | María Soledad López González |
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned—if not notorious—for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the...
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Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself. But it is also a thorough examination of the answers he uncovers in the course of reading what's been written on the subject. As his own story unfolds, Mark Browning analyzes angling...
| Автор | Mark Browning |
As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home is a pioneering work that explores the idea of home as fundamental to the question of cultural and national identity within Poland's recent history and its tradition. In this inaugural volume...
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Meredith Sue Willis ’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and...
| Автор | Meredith Sue Willis |
Moon Classics Here you will find the complete novels of Nikolai Gogol in the chronological order of their original publication. – Taras Bulba – Dead Souls
| Автор | Nikolai Gogol |
"Erinnerungen von Ludolf Ursleu dem Jüngeren" erzählt über familiäre Beziehungen, Liebe und Hass, persönliche Tragödien, die Such nach Liebe und Gegenseitigkeit. Nach Handlung, hat sich der gelernte Jurist Ludolf Ursleu der Jüngere ins Kloster Einsiedeln als «griesgrämiger Greis» zurückgezogen und erzählt in dieser Klausur eine Geschichte aus längst vergangenen Jugendzeiten.
| Автор | Ricarda Huch |
E-BOOK VERSION. Expectations filled to the brim. And maybe spilling all over the table. 'Expectations Filled to The Brim' is the very first book of the author, Ibrahim Sonmez. More than a demonstration of his excitement for poetry; with this work, he hopes to share his love for subtle and clear meanings of words itself and, what and how they mean to him.
| Автор | Ibrahim Sönmez |
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that...
| Автор | Neil Hultgren |
Que lugar ocupa a edição de escritores hispano-americanos no panorama português? Que escritores foram publicados e em que datas? Como podemos caracterizar o trabalho tradutório do espanhol para o português? Dar resposta a estas e outras questões é o objectivo fundamental desta obra, que apresenta um panorama da dinâmica do polissistema português desde as últimas décadas do século XX ao início do século XXI, em particular a sua relação com os países da América Hispânica. Partindo do levantamento...
| Автор | Isabel Araújo Branco |
Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden’s Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the natural wonders and local customs of Walden’s Ridge. Jobs were scarce, however, and as the family’s...
| Автор | Emma Bell Miles |
New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than three hundred magazines, literary journals, and small presses, and narrowed the selection to nineteen authors comprising prize winners and new and established authors. The stories, written by midwestern writers or focusing on the Midwest, demonstrate how the quality of fiction from...
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