Fatal Love

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Dell
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440223016

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A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott Pdf

"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then, one stormy night, a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home, ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the mysterious Philip Tempest, Rosamond is seduced with promises of love and freedom, then spirited away on Tempest's sumptuous yacht. But she soon finds herself trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit. Desperate to escape, she flees to Italy, France, and Germany, from Parisian garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau, as Tempest stalks every step of the fiery beauty who has become his obsession. A story of dark love and passionate obsession that was considered "too sensational" to be published in the authors lifetime, A Long Fatal Love Chase was written for magazine serialization in 1866, two years before the publication of Little Women. Buried among Louisa May Alcott's papers for more than a century, its publication is a literary landmark—a novel that is bold, timeless, and mesmerizing."

Author : Victor Uribe-Uran
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804796316

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Fatal Love by Victor Uribe-Uran Pdf

One night in December 1800, in the distant mission outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the murder of her abusive husband. While the victim was sleeping, Prio and his brother tied a rope around Juan Californio's neck. One of them sat on his body while the other pulled on the rope and the woman, grabbing her husband by the legs, pulled in the opposite direction. After Juan Californio suffocated, Eulalia ran to the mission and reported that her husband had choked while chewing tobacco. Suspicious, the mission priests reported the crime to the authorities in charge of the nearest presidio. For historians, spousal murders are significant for what they reveal about social and family history, in particular the hidden history of day-to-day gender relations, conflicts, crimes, and punishments. Fatal Love examines this phenomenon in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic, focusing on incidents occurring in New Spain (colonial Mexico), New Granada (colonial Colombia), and Spain from the 1740s to the 1820s. In the more than 200 cases consulted, it considers not only the social features of the murders, but also the legal discourses and judicial practices guiding the historical treatment of spousal murders, helping us understand the historical intersection of domestic violence, private and state/church patriarchy, and the law.

Author : Joseph Netherclift
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041936134

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Thou, Fatal Love by Joseph Netherclift Pdf

Author : John Egerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1788
Category : English drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433081603411

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Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer by John Egerton Pdf

Author : Eliphas Levi
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609254216

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The Great Secret or Occultism Unveiled by Eliphas Levi Pdf

So concludes what Levi considered to be his testament, his most important and final treatise, and a summation of his esoteric philosophy. This volume is the conclusion of the work he started as Book One, The Heiratic Mystery or the Traditional Documents of High Initiation, published as The Book of Splendours (Weiser, 1984). The Great Secret contains his final two works. In Book Two, The Royal Mystery or Art of Subduing the Powers, Levi discusses such topics as Evil, the Outer Darkness, the Great Secret, Magical Sacrifice, Evocations, the Arcana of Solomon's Ring, and the Terrible Secret. In Book Three, The Sacerdotal Mystery or the Art of being Served by Spirits, he expounds on the subjects of Aberrant Forces, the Chaining of the Devil, Sacred and Accursed Rites, Divination, Dark Intelligence, and the Great Arcanum.

Author : L. R. Jackson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541139690

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A Fatal Love Affair by L. R. Jackson Pdf

Meet Haven. Hit woman for her crime boss uncle who eliminates anyone who gets in the way of his shady business dealings. Haven is her uncle's secret ingredient to a recipe of taking whatever he wants. She does her job well and she has never missed a target. But what will happen when she unexpectedly falls for her next target? Will her loyalty lie with her uncle who took her in as a child after her parents died? Or will it lie with the one and only man she has ever loved?

Author : Rien Gray
Publisher : NineStar Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648901928

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Love Kills Twice by Rien Gray Pdf

She needs an assassin. They’re the best in the business. Falling in love was never part of the deal. Desperate to escape her abusive husband, Justine hires a contract killer. Campbell’s services come at a high price, and their dark, seductive charisma leads Justine right into their bed. Hiding an affair while Campbell designs the perfect murder has Justine walking a tightrope of stress, but each time the two of them sleep together, it’s harder not to get attached. Campbell struggles with their own traumatic past, convinced that the truth will drive Justine away. There’s a faint hope that things could work, save for one problem: Justine’s husband wants her dead too. Revenge is easy—heartbreak could cost both of them everything.

Author : Susan J. Owen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584008

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Restoration Theatre and Crisis by Susan J. Owen Pdf

Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book cosniders all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context. It examines the complex ways in which the drama both reflected and intervened in the political process, at a time when the crisis fractured an already fragile post-interregnum consensus, and modern party political methods first began to develop. Susan Owen discusses the ways in which Tory and Whig playwrights engaged in dramatic dialogue, deliberately commenting on and revising each other's themes and topics. The book also explores the arena of sexual politics, examining the political significance of themes such as disharmony in the family, and the importance of rape as a dramatic signifier of monstrosity associated with rebellion by the Tories and tyranny and popery by the Whigs. Restoration Theatre and Crisis considers the use of sexuality as a political discourse, and ways in which ideas about libertinism and constructions of masculinity and femininity intersect with political concerns in the drama. Thus the book bridges the gap between `gender-blind' political accounts and studies which have focused on gender themes in the drama in isolation from party politics.

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937909079

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Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon Pdf

When a bookstore owner is accused of murdering his ex-lover, proving his innocence might lead a hard-nosed detective to a fatal attraction… Thirty-five-year-old gay bookseller Adrien English searches for love between the pages. As a sensitive intellectual with a heart condition, his dating life is gathering dust on the shelves. But when police name him the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his friend and employee, Adrien doesn't expect his best hope for romance to be assigned to the case… Detective Jake Riordan is hungry to climb the ranks. All he has to do for a promotion is nail the handsome bookstore owner for an obvious crime of passion. If only he could stop fantasizing about the suspect instead of the "normal" wife and family his career demands… As Riordan’s investigation heats up and the suspect insists on his innocence, the detective doubts both Adrien's guilt and his ability to resist the man's understated charms. Can they turn the crime into passion, or will a killer on the loose write The End?

Author : William J. Burling
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838634516

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A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737 by William J. Burling Pdf

An extensive index includes play titles and subtitles, playwrights, and related scholars.

Author : Alfred Harbage,Sylvia S. Wagonheim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415010993

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Annals of English Drama, 975-1700 by Alfred Harbage,Sylvia S. Wagonheim Pdf

An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.

Author : Gabriel P. Weisberg,Laurinda A. Dixon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815624107

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The Documented Image by Gabriel P. Weisberg,Laurinda A. Dixon Pdf

Author : John Genest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Theater
ISBN : OXFORD:300031597

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Some Account of the English Stage by John Genest Pdf

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1732
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017668882

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The Three Celebrated Plays of that Excellent Poet Ben Jonson, Viz. the Fox, ... the Alchymist, ... and the Silent Woman ... To which is Added, a Compleat Catalogue of All the Plays that Were Ever Printed in the English Language, to the Year 1732 by Ben Jonson Pdf

Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1756
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N11725442

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Theatrical Records by Robert Dodsley Pdf