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Apprenticed to Venus

Author : Tristine Rainer
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628727791

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A Revealing Look at the Mentorship—and Manipulation—of Anaïs Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences—including that of her bigamy—even after Anaïs Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous Anaïs Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anaïs’s inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author’s daring intrigues—while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. In what Kirkus calls a “spicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,” Apprenticed to Venus brings to life a seductive and entertaining character —the pioneer whose mantra was, “A woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!” An intimate look at the intricacies—and risks—of the female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure.

The Birth of Venus

Author : Sarah Dunant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588364425

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

Parliamentary Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106491095

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Accounts and Papers

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555096614

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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555094828

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African Queen

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307510730

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Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.

A Global History of Runaways

Author : Marcus Rediker,Titas Chakraborty,Matthias van Rossum
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520304369

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A Global History of Runaways by Marcus Rediker,Titas Chakraborty,Matthias van Rossum Pdf

During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.

Larklight

Author : Philip Reeve
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781619631182

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Larklight by Philip Reeve Pdf

Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe. Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.

Early Modern Privacy

Author : Michaël Green,Lars Cyril Nørgaard,Mette Birkedal Bruun
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004153073

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Early Modern Privacy by Michaël Green,Lars Cyril Nørgaard,Mette Birkedal Bruun Pdf

An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.

The Tinted Venus

Author : F. Anstey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Aphrodite (Greek deity)
ISBN : UCAL:B3550188

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Selections from the Edinburgh Review...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000085067

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The Edinburgh Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103139197

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A Trip to Venus

Author : John Munro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Venus (Planet)
ISBN : WISC:89006381693

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