The Virgins

Author : Pamela Erens
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935639626

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The Virgins by Pamela Erens Pdf

It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.

Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385689342

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Virgins: An Outlander Novella by Diana Gabaldon Pdf

A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella. Featuring all the trademark suspense, adventure, and history of Diana Gabaldon's #1 bestselling novels and the Showcase original series, Virgins is now available for the first time as a standalone ebook. Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds; both have good reason to stay out of Scotland; and both are still virgins, despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue. But Jamie's love life becomes infinitely more complicated--and dangerous--when fate brings the young men into the service of Dr. Hasdi, a Jewish gentleman who hires them to escort two priceless treasures to Paris. One is an old Torah; the other is the doctor's beautiful grand-daughter, Rebekah, destined for an arranged marriage. Both Jamie and Ian are instantly drawn to the bride-to-be--but they might be more cautious if they had any idea who they're truly dealing with. Praise for Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle, on Outlander “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News, on Outlander “Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves.”—The Arizona Republic, on Dragonfly in Amber “Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.”—Publishers Weekly, on Voyager “Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail.”—The Cincinnati Post, on Drums of Autumn “A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].”—CNN, on The Fiery Cross “The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters.”—Booklist, on A Breath of Snow and Ashes “Features all the passion and swashbuckling that fans of this historical fantasy series have come to expect.”—People, on Written in My Own Heart’s Blood

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307401939

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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Pdf

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.

Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300126532

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The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf Pdf

A new edition of Leonard Woolf's satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group​ The Wise Virgins (1914), Leonard Woolf's second novel, was published two years after the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen--and begun during their honeymoon. The autobiographical elements of the book are well documented. Its publication caused acute distress to Woolf's family. Leonard's sister, Bella, urged him to bury the novel, while his mother was shocked and mortified by unflattering portraits of herself and her neighbors. Two weeks after reading the novel, Virginia Woolf suffered the worst of her many breakdowns. As aroman à clef the novel holds considerable interest for its picture of Leonard and Virginia's courtship, as well as its sketches of Vanessa Stephen and Clive Bell. (Virginia would later retell the story, from a much different perspective, in Night and Day.) But the novel offers the contemporary reader other rewards. It remains a witty, engaging satire about English society just before World War I and its conventions and prejudices. In Harry Davis, Woolf created a memorable Jewish antihero who rails against society's conventions but tragically finds himself unable to escape them. Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning contributes a foreword to this new paperback edition.

Author : Catherine Cookson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451660170

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Year of the Virgins by Catherine Cookson Pdf

From Simon & Schuster, The Year of the Virgins is another master work of historical fiction from Catherine Cookson. Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a legacy in which their youngest son, Donald, must choose between the values of the past and present.

Author : Stephen Booth
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007370719

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Dancing With the Virgins (Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 2) by Stephen Booth Pdf

The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, Dancing with the Virgins is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth’s acclaimed debut Black Dog.

Author : JILLIAN BECKER
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783014613

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THE VIRGINS by JILLIAN BECKER Pdf

Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in apartheid South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls' boarding-school. She and her friend Barb long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her down. Bitterly disappointed, she consoles herself by making love - against the law - to a "e;colored"e; boy of her own age whom she can order to do her will. The writing is witty, comic, and lightly satirical, but for all the simplicity of the story it is a profoundly moral and challenging novel. Published first in England, it was banned in South Africa for ten years, then republished in that country when the process of "e;liberalization"e; began.

Author : Laura Saetveit Miles
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845348

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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation by Laura Saetveit Miles Pdf

An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.

Author : Hanford Lennox Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015076334872

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The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon Pdf

Author : Esq. F. L.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017906713

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The Virgin's Nosegay, Or the Duties of Christian Virgins: ... Stated Under Three Principal Heads ... To which is Added, Advice to a New Married Lady. By F...... L...., Esq by Esq. F. L. Pdf

Author : Atanga, George Che
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956792436

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The Last Of The Virgins by Atanga, George Che Pdf

Evelyn Ndangeh, a pretty Cameroonian teenager brought up in a strict Christian home, vows to preserve her maidenhood until she gets married to a man she truly loves. While in Our Lady of Lourdes College Mankon, she is approached by Lesley Njapa a student of Cameroon Protestant College Bali, after a student of CCAST Bambili. Evelyn turns him down only to find later that she can't stay alone without a man who must be none other than Lesley. Evelyn begins frantic moves to entice Lesley but on meeting him it seems too late though she gets close to his heart. Tragedy strikes when Lesley is involved in a motor accident. Evelyn arrives Bamenda general hospital wailing and settles beside Lesley to console and comfort him in his agony. Anxiety builds up to a crescendo and a medical team is mobilised to save Lesley's life.

Author : Kevin Gosner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816512935

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Soldiers of the Virgin by Kevin Gosner Pdf

In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the burgeoning cult, they ignited a full-scale rebellion. Declaring "Now there is no God or King," rebel leaders raised an army of some five thousand "soldiers of the Virgin" to defend their new faith and cast off colonial rule.Using the trial records of Mayas imprisoned after the rebellion, as well as the letters of Dominican priests, the local bishop, and Spaniards who led the army of pacification, Kevin Gosner reconstructs the history of the Tzeltal Revolt and examines its causes. He characterizes the rebellion as a defense of the Maya moral economy, and shows how administrative reforms and new economic demands imposed by colonial authorities at the end of the seventeenth century challenged Maya norms about the ritual obligations of community leaders, the need for reciprocity in political affairs, and the supernatural origins of power.The first book-length study of the Tzeltal Revolt, Soldiers of the Virgin goes beyond the conventions of the regional monograph to offer an expansive view of Maya social and cultural history. With an eye to the contributions of archaeologists and ethnographers, Gosner explores many issues that are central to Maya studies, including the origins of the civil-religious hierarchy, the role of shamanism in political culture, the social dynamics of peasant corporate communities, and the fate of the native nobility after the Spanish conquest.

Author : Gabriele D'Annunzio
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113026087

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The Book of the Virgins by Gabriele D'Annunzio Pdf

The Book of the Virgins, published here in its first English translation, is one of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s very first collections. Remarkable for its descriptive powers, it is a compelling account of self-knowledge and coming-of-age. Recovering from a near-fatal illness, a young woman resolves to experience for herself all that life has to offer. Spurning her old saintly ways, she sets out to explore the beauty and energy in everything around her. But as she senses the first stirrings of passion, so too comes tragedy, and with it, the realization that to truly live, she must embrace life in all its brutality. Poet, dramatist, novelist, and one of the most popular and controversial Italian writers of the 20th century, Gabriele D’Annunzio represented the very height of decadence in Italy.

Author : Jeanne Harman
Publisher : New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : British Virgin Islands
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018634591

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The Virgins by Jeanne Harman Pdf

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Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783168699

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The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins by Jane Cartwright Pdf

The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.