Prince of Pleasure

Prince of Pleasure
Author: Saul David
Publisher:
Total Pages: 485
Release: 1998
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780349110875

Described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy and good feeling that I ever saw in one character in my life', George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, later George IV, was a highly controversial figure. He courted both Whigs and Tories in his attempts to establish the Regency during the 'madness' of his father, George III. Scandalous liaisons with prostitutes and duchesses, and his 'secret' marriage to the Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, tested his duty - to nation and to family. Yet his support for overseas campaigns against Napoleon, culminating in such historic victories as Trafalgar and Waterloo, consolidated Britain's status as the pre-eminent world power amid the great social and economic upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on a wealth of original accounts of life in Georgian Britain, Saul David has created a masterly portrait - of a flamboyant, opportunistic and influential figure, and of a nation in a time of great change.

To Pleasure a Prince

To Pleasure a Prince
Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416506802

The sizzling and passionate Royal Brotherhood series from the New York Times bestselling author of Never Seduce a Scoundrel returns with this sexy story featuring three illegitimate sons of the Prince of Wales and the women who snare them. Beautiful Lady Regina Tremaine has turned down so many suitors that she’s known as La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The truth: she won’t marry because she carries a dark secret. She sees no good reason, however, why her brother shouldn’t court the lovely Louisa North—even if the girl’s brother, the notorious “Dragon Viscount,” objects. Marcus North, Viscount Draker—bastard son of the Prince of Wales—is rumored to be a monster who holds women captive in his dark castle to have his way with them. He has been exiled from polite society for years. But when Lady Regina makes a plea on her brother’s behalf, Marcus proposes an outrageous deal: her brother can court Louisa so long as Marcus can court Regina. Can the beauty and the beast survive a proper courtship when the devastatingly improper passion between them threatens to cause the scandal of the century?

Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Pleasure of a Dark Prince
Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010-02-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416583556

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole enraptures again with this seductive tale of a fierce werewolf prince who will stop at nothing to protect the lovely archer he covets from afar. A dangerous beauty... Lucia the Huntress: as mysterious as she is exquisite, she harbors secrets that threaten to destroy her—and those she loves. ​ An uncontrollable need… ​Garreth MacRieve, Prince of the Lykae: the brutal Highland warrior who burns to finally claim this maddeningly sensual creature as his own. ​ That lead to a pleasure so wicked… ​From the shadows, Garreth has long watched over Lucia. Now, the only way to keep the proud huntress safe from harm is to convince her to accept him as her guardian. To do this, Garreth will ruthlessly exploit Lucia's greatest weakness—her wanton desire for him.

THE PRINCE'S PLEASURE

THE PRINCE'S PLEASURE
Author: Robyn Donald
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596069344

Photographer Alexa is working temporarily as a waitress at a hotel banquet when she meets Luka, the grand duke of the kingdom of Dacia. On her way home, she is saved from some muggers by Luka. He takes her to her apartment, but somehow their run-in ends up in the tabloids. On top of that, Alexa is accused of orchestrating the whole thing as a publicity stunt! Now she has to prove her innocence…

PRINCE'S PLEASURE

PRINCE'S PLEASURE
Author: Carole Mortiner
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596069549

Tyler is a reporter for a gossip newspaper, but she’s always letting big scoops slip from her fingers and is on the verge of being fired. Her last hope is a weeklong exclusive interview with Zak, a famous actor. She can’t fail! She anxiously heads to the interview, but Zak’s attitude when she gets there is super cold! She tries to get him to let her in, but ends up passing out after a few too many drinks. Tyler is surprised when she wakes up the next morning and finds herself in Zak’s bed!

A Court Affair

A Court Affair
Author: Emily Purdy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007459009

Passion, Treachery, Betrayal. The virgin queen has arrived... Uncovering the love triangle between Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, and his wife Amy, and her mysterious death, A Court Affair is an unforgettable story of ambition, lust and jealousy.

The Prince of Pleasure

The Prince of Pleasure
Author: Nicole Jordan
Publisher: Ivy Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804119805

The incomparable Nicole Jordan weaves a seductive tale of passion and betrayal, intrigue and destiny, in her most devastatingly delicious love story yet. . . . He is England’s most notorious rake. Known as Dare to his friends, the wicked, outrageously charming Marquess of Wolverton is a consummate pleasure-seeker. But the seductive lifestyle is just his way of burying painful memories of the dazzling actress who once shattered his heart. When treachery threatens the Crown, Dare resolves to use his former beloved to help unmask a deadly traitor. Forced to betray the only man she ever loved, Julienne wants simply to forget the tender passion they had known as young lovers. But when Dare publicly vows to have her again as his mistress, she responds to his challenge with a vow of her own: to bring the Prince of Pleasure to his arrogant knees. As romantic adversaries, they play a provocative game of seduction. As patriotic allies, they embark on a perilous mission rife with danger and desire. And as their unforgettable passion rekindles, together they discover what Dare has long denied—that true love is the greatest pleasure of all.

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Author: William Laud (successively Bishop of Bath and Wells and of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1857
Genre:
ISBN:

Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure
Author: Tessa Hadley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2002-02-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139432915

Tessa Hadley examines how Henry James progressively disentangled himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. Hadley argues that his relationship with the European novel tradition was crucial, helping to leave behind a way of seeing in which only 'bad' women could be sexual. She reads James's transitional fictions of the 1890s as explorations of how disabling and distorting ideals of women's goodness and purity were learned and perpetuated within English and American cultural processes. These explorations, Hadley argues, liberate James to write the great heterosexual love affairs of the late novels, with their emphasis on the power of pleasure and play: themes which are central to James's ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure class society.