The Seduction of Willow

The Seduction of Willow
Author: Aurora Ashwing
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1105431045

On a beautiful night, Willow decided to go to a popular bar downtown in the city that she lived in with her friends. She had started to question her relationship with her friends as her body got closer to the building. Her eyes watched her friends completely blow her off right there in the bar area, and not really care what she was doing. Deciding to just head on her way, Willow started towards the doors of the lounge.Feeling her body bumping into someone, Katarina glanced down, and found herself locked in a stare with a beautiful young woman who looked as pure as white rose, but had a very strong sense of sensuality lying deep within herself. She had been alive for the last 500 years, and never saw anyone quite like this woman.The seduction of Willow had started to begun.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307387623

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco Chronicle Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.

The Seduction of an English Scoundrel

The Seduction of an English Scoundrel
Author: Jillian Hunter
Publisher: Ivy Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2005-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345461215

Award-winning author Jillian Hunter pens a delightful romp of passion and tantalizing trickery proving all is fair in matters of love. It would have been the wedding of the year–had the groom, Sir Nigel Boscastle, bothered to put in an appearance. To the shock of her distinguished guests, the respectable Lady Jane Welsham is left humiliated at the altar. Yet truth be told, although outwardly ruined she is elated to have escaped marriage to a man she does not love. Enter Grayson Boscastle, the irresistible Marquess of Sedgecroft (and cousin to Nigel). Grayson’s duty is clear: salvage the young lady’s pride and reestablish the family’s good name, while repairing his own tarnished reputation as one of London’s most notorious scoundrels. Their whirlwind affair is the talk of the ton. Yet nothing is as it seems between the bewitching Lady Jane, who knows that her wedding was cleverly sabotaged, and her charming rogue, as they are drawn into an amusing game of seduction and secrets.

Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon

Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon
Author: Lewis Call
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476675066

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy. Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them

Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them
Author: Ron Backer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 078649896X

Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known--even to avid horror fans--are the many other memorable films based on literary works. Beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present, numerous horror films found their inspiration in novels, novellas, short stories and poems, though many of these written works are long forgotten. This book examines 43 works of literature--from the famous to the obscure--that provided the basis for 62 horror films. Both the written works and the films are analyzed critically, with an emphasis on the symbiosis between the two. Background on the authors and their writings is provided.

Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700

Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700
Author: Daria Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136290214

Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.

Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror

Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror
Author: Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786461896

Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage and television appearances, along with a critical listing of her novels and other published works. An analysis of Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy--of which Pitt's celebrated The Vampire Lovers (1970) was the first installment--is included, and also examined is the trilogy's original literary source, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Other features are rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from every phase of the actress' career and a foreword by Ingrid Pitt herself.