Hortense In Exile
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Author | : Jacques Roubaud |
Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564782557 |
-- First paperback edition. -- Hortense is in trouble again. Set to marry the Premier Prince Presumptive, our heroine finds herself caught in the middle of the plot of Hamlet, playing the unfortunate role of Ophelia. Can she escape in time? Brimming with brilliant wordplay, mathematical equations, literary allusions, and cats, Hortense in Exile continues the Hortense series in grand style. -- Jacques Roubaud is president of the l'Association Georges Perec, a society dedicated to honoring the work of his fellow Oulipian. -- First published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive (1992).
Author | : John S. C. Abbott |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Hortense is part of the Makers of History Series and tells the story of Hortense de Beauharnais, the stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte and Queen of Holland. The book provides a detailed account of her life, including her childhood, marriage, and political struggles.
Author | : Elizabeth C Goldsmith |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1586488902 |
The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.
Author | : Sir Lascelles Wraxall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Jacques Roubaud |
Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564782564 |
Time is running out for the Inspector, however, as the murderer puts into action his plot to kidnap our heroine Hortense, a 22-year-old philosophy student whose buttocks are so beautiful their description has been banned from the printed page."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Yves Navarre |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564784445 |
In a New York as gritty and brutal as Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles--a city of muggings, cockroach-infested apartments, dank hospitals, and casual murders--three characters cross paths and collide. Sweet Tooth is a book of anonymous sexual encounters and of lust that grades into love: a story by one of the most brilliantly uncompromising innovators of gay literature that shocks with candor and builds to an incredible climax. Its last line--"Adventure is dead"--grounds everything that has come before and gives a conclusive, melancholy tone to a book that is much more than shocking.
Author | : Walter Geer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : John S.C. Abbott |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734071100 |
Reproduction of the original: Makers of History Series by John S.C. Abbott
Author | : Frank B. Wilderson III |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631496158 |
“Wilderson’s thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge”—Fred Moten Praised as “a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy” (Aaron Robertson,?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson’s Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists that we must view Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of memoir, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.“Wilderson’s ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. . . . Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity.”—Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post
Author | : Luise Mühlbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1870 |
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