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The Courtesan and the Samurai
| Author | : Lesley Downer |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2010-04-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1409095452 |
1868. In Japan's exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love ... Hana is just seventeen when her husband goes to war, leaving her alone and vulnerable. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees across the shattered city of Tokyo and takes refuge in the Yoshiwara, its famous pleasure-quarters.There she is forced to become a courtesan. Yozo, brave, loyal and a brilliant swordsman, is pledged to the embattled shogun. He sails to the frozen north to join his rebel comrades for a desperate last stand. Defeated, he makes his way south to the only place where a man is beyond the reach of the law - the Yoshiwara. There in the Nightless City where three thousand courtesans mingle with geishas and jesters, the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan. But each has a secret so terrible that once revealed it will threaten their very lives ...
Courtesan
| Author | : Louisa Trent |
| Publisher | : Trent Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2011-10-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The Gilded Age: New York, 1883 With creditors pounding at the door, starvation imminent, and nothing left to lose, eighteen-year old Sarah Winslow signs a note to excuse the indebtedness she has assumed for her deceased father. In actuality, she's just sold herself into an exclusive brothel, her ruination orchestrated by Sebastian Turner, a wealthy gentleman who has bought and paid for her virginal innocence for reasons all his own. For eighteen long years, Seb has methodically plotted to destroy the Winslow name. And he succeeds. He now owns all of Michael Winslow's possessions, including his lovely daughter, Sarah. Seb has everything he ever wanted. Save, it's not enough. He wants more... From the prim and proper lady he has made his Courtesan.
Courtesan
| Author | : Diane Haeger |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2006-07-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307347095 |
Amid the disapproving gossip of the Court, a royal romance defies all obstacles. The Court of François I is full of lust, intrigue, and bawdy bon temps—a different world from the quiet country life Diane de Poitiers led with her elderly husband. Now a widow, the elegant Diane is called back to Court, where the King’s obvious interest marks her as an enemy to the King’s favourite, Anne d’Heilly. The Court is soon electrified by rumors of their confrontations. As Anne calls on her most venomous tricks to drive Diane away, Diane finds an ally in the one member of Court with no allegiance to the King’s mistress: his teenage second son, Henri. Neglected by his father and disliked by his brothers, Prince Henri expects little from his life. But as his friendship with Diane deepens into infatuation and then a romance that scandalizes the Court, the Prince begins to discover hope for a future with Diane. But fate and his father have other plans for Henri—including a political marriage with Catherine de Medici. Despite daunting obstacles, Henri’s devotion to Diane never wanes; their passion becomes one of the most legendary romances in the history of France. Also available as an eBook
Courtesans at Table
| Author | : Laura McClure |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2014-02-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 131779415X |
Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments, all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient Greece. Although prostitutes appear as early as archaic Greek lyric poetry, our fullest accounts come from the late second century CE. Drawing on Book 13 of the Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae--which contains almost all known references to hetaeras from all periods of Greek literature--Laura K. McClure has created a window onto the ways ancient Greeks perceived the courtesan and the role of the courtesan in Greek life.
Queen and the Courtesan
| Author | : Freda Lightfoot |
| Publisher | : Severn House Publishers Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1780101643 |
A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller - Henriette d'Entragues isn't satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess. But Henriette isn't one for giving up easily. All she has to do to achieve her ambition is to give Henry a son, and then do whatever it takes to set him on the throne . . .
The Oil Vendor and the Courtesan
| Author | : Menglong Feng |
| Publisher | : Welcome Rain Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781566491396 |
These eight tales from the Song and Ming Dynasties present readers with a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in sixteenth and seventeenth centruy China.
The Courtesan's Secret
| Author | : Claudia Dain |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2008-05-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1440636699 |
An unrequited love who is in possession of her family?s pearls leaves Lady Louisa Kirkland no choice. She must call on Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan cleverer than all the other ton matrons combined.
Unmaking Mimesis
| Author | : Elin Diamond |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134982135 |
In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
