In Possession of a Good Fortune

In Possession of a Good Fortune
Author: Shanae Johnson
Publisher: Those Johnson Girls
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Lydia Bennett runs off and gets engaged to Mr. Wrong, she'll have no idea it'll be for all the right reasons. Chatterbox Lydia Bennett has always felt like the stepchild in her redheaded family. To get out from the shadows of her successful older sisters, she starts a gossip blog fueled by info from her best friend, and heiress Emma. When Lydia gets the chance to write a story for the city paper, she'll need to expose one of the bull riders in town for the annual Pemberley Rodeo. And one rodeo star in particular is all too eager to give her a wild ride. Bull rider George Wickham is in over his head—in debt that is. After repeated injuries, Wick's bull riding days are nearly up. With his career at an end, he'll have no way to pay off the money he owes to the rodeo organizers. But when Wick learns about a young heiress in attendance at the rodeo, a plan forms to sweep her off her feet to get access to her wallet. Unfortunately, Wick mistakes Lydia for her bestie and the two hit it off, falling hard and fast and getting engaged in record time. But when this case of mistaken identity is revealed, they both will be faced with impossible choices. Lydia will have to decide between the career she’s always wanted and the secrets of the man she’s in love with. Wick will have to choose whether or not to ride in an event that might cost his livelihood and possibly his life to prove his love for the right woman? Get swept off your feet by this clean and wholesome, laugh out loud romantic comedy filled with sweet and swoony situations and a heartwarming happily-ever-after. In Possession of a Good Fortune is the third in a series of modern day Jane Austen retellings—set on a ranch!

Adventures in English Syntax

Adventures in English Syntax
Author: Robert Freidin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108487726

An engaging introduction to English sentence structure, showing how users can apply this knowledge to become better readers and writers.

A Truth Universally Acknowledged

A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0812980018

Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue, to the arc and sweep of her story lines, to her prescriptions for life and love. Virginia Woolf examines Austen’s maturation as an artist and speculates on how her writing would have changed had she lived another twenty years, while Anna Quindlen examines the enduring issues of social pressure and gender politics that make Pride and Prejudice as vital today as ever. From Harold Bloom to Martin Amis, Somerset Maugham to Jay McInerney, Eudora Welty to Amy Bloom, each writer reflects on Austen’s place in both the literary canon and our cultural imagination.

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Author: Helena Kelly
Publisher: Icon Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1785781170

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.

A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1632862425

A charming retelling of Jane Austen’s classic love story about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, featuring the sweet, rotund little piglets who brought you A Guinea Pig Nativity.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Provender Press Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition

Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition
Author: Annabella Bloom
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440562547

This reissue of Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition launches Crimson Romance’s new Wild and Wanton line! It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife . . . in bed. Unfortunately, we’ve never been able to see Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam in flagrante delicto - until now. In this deliciously naughty updating of the beloved classic, you can peek behind the closed doors of Pemberley’s sexiest master bedroom - and revel in the sexual delights of your favorite couple. From first kiss to orgasmic finish, this book is every Austen fan’s dream come true - the story you love, with the heat turned up to high. It will come as no surprise that the dashing Mr. Darcy is as passionate and intense with his knickers off as he is with them on. And admit it, we’ve all wanted to see him sans knickers! Sensuality Level: Hot

Jokes and the Linguistic Mind

Jokes and the Linguistic Mind
Author: Debra Aarons
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-02-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136709320

Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these 'linguistic jokes' can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we use. Analyzing hilarious examples from movies, plays and books, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind demonstrates that tacit linguistic knowledge must become conscious for linguistic jokes to be understood. The book examines jokes that exploit pragmatic, semantic, morphological, phonological and semantic features of language, as well as jokes that use more than one language and jokes that are about language itself. With its use of jokes as data and its highly accessible explanations of complex linguistic concepts, this book is an engaging supplementary text for introductory courses in linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive science.