A Lady Of Notoriety (Mills & Boon Historical) (The Masquerade Club, Book 3)

A Lady Of Notoriety (Mills & Boon Historical) (The Masquerade Club, Book 3)
Author: Diane Gaston
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472043987

DESIRED FOR HERSELF ALONE... When fallen beauty Daphne, Lady Faville, is carried to safety from a rampaging fire, she’s horrified to recognise her rescuer as Hugh Westleigh – a man with every reason to despise her!

Betrothed To The Barbarian (Mills & Boon Historical) (Palace Brides, Book 3)

Betrothed To The Barbarian (Mills & Boon Historical) (Palace Brides, Book 3)
Author: Carol Townend
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408943670

A LESS THAN PERFECT PRINCESS... Princess Theodora of Constantinople is to marry Duke Nikolaos, General-in-Chief of the army, a man chosen for her by the Emperor. An imperial princess must always do her duty: be beautiful, obedient and pure. But Theodora spent ten years in exile in a barbarian land.

Arabella

Arabella
Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728262895

Updated edition of the beloved classic by the Queen of Regency romance herself, Georgette Heyer, featuring a new Foreword by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James. Arabella's one little while lie has spread through the ton like wildfire... Arabella Tallant, modest daughter of a country clergyman, is on her way to her first London Season when her carriage breaks down outside the estate of the wealthy and bored Mr. Robert Beaumaris. Beau assumes she's simply another young lady throwing herself in his path, which goads the impetuous Arabella into pretending she's an heiress. Much to Arabella's dismay, rather than being brutally set-down, as she intended, Beaumaris is deeply amused. He counters by launching her into high society, which Arabella would enjoy very much if it wasn't for the fortune hunters. Arabella's unpredictable and innocent ways force Beaumaris to start helping others, including a stray dog, an unfortunate urchin, and eventually Arabella's reckless young brother. Along the way, Arabella and Beaumaris become more and more intrigued with each other—which neither will admit, of course, until under extreme duress. "Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes... Utter, immersive escapism."—SOPHIE KINSELLA "No one has ever matched Georgette Heyer for charm and wit." —LISA KLEYPAS "Utterly timeless charm... The dialogue sparkles with wit." —NORA ROBERTS, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Romance, adventure, side-splitting humor—no one writes like Georgette Heyer!" —LAUREN WILLIG, New York Times bestselling author

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

Strange True Stories of Louisiana
Author: George W. Cable
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734019370

Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable

The Social Life of Coffee

The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300133502

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Author: James L. Machor
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801899338

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.

In the Shadow of Jezebel (Treasures of His Love Book #4)

In the Shadow of Jezebel (Treasures of His Love Book #4)
Author: Mesu Andrews
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441213295

Princess Jehosheba wants nothing more than to please the harsh and demanding Queen Athaliah, daughter of the notorious Queen Jezebel. Her work as a priestess in the temple of Baal seems to do the trick. But when a mysterious letter from the dead prophet Elijah predicts doom for the royal household, Jehosheba realizes that the dark arts she practices reach beyond the realm of earthly governments. To further Athaliah and Jezebel's strategies, she is forced to marry Yahweh's high priest and enters the unfamiliar world of Yahweh's temple. Can her new husband show her the truth and love she craves? And can Jehosheba overcome her fear and save the family--and the nation--she loves? With deft skill, Mesu Andrews brings Old Testament passages to life, revealing a fascinating story of the power of unconditional love.