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Virgins: An Outlander Novella

Diana Gabaldon
Virgins An Outlander Novella Book PDF

Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,5 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

The Wise Virgins

Leonard Woolf
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Author : Leonard Woolf
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300126532

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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.

The Virgins

Pamela Erens
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Author : Pamela Erens
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935639626

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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.

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides
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Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.

The Disease of Virgins

Helen King
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Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134589081

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The Disease of Virgins by Helen King Pdf

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of anorexia. Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what we should call‘normal’ behaviour. This is a fascinating and clear account which will prove invaluable not just to students of classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals also.

Menacing Virgins

Kathleen Coyne Kelly,Marina Leslie
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly,Marina Leslie
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136490

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Menacing Virgins by Kathleen Coyne Kelly,Marina Leslie Pdf

The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.

Virgins

Anke Bernau
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Author : Anke Bernau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Virginity
ISBN : UCSC:32106017404291

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Witty and thought-provoking, 'Virgins' reveals virginity's changing cultural significance throughout its long history, and its enduring power in contemporary society.

St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne

Scott Bradford Montgomery
St Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne Book PDF

Author : Scott Bradford Montgomery
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039118528

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St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne by Scott Bradford Montgomery Pdf

The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in medieval Europe. The sheer abundance of relics of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, which allowed for the display of immense collections, shaped the notion of corporate cohesion that characterized the cult. Though the primacy of St. Ursula as the leader of this holy band was established by the tenth century, she was conceived as the head of a corporate body. Innumerable inventories and liturgical texts attest to the fact that this cult was commemorated and referenced as a collective mass - Undecim millium virginum. This group identity informed, and was formulated by, the presentation of their relics, as well as much of the imagery associated with this cult. This book explores the visual, textual, performative, and perceptual aspects of this phenomenon, with particular emphasis on painting and sculpture in late medieval Cologne. Examining the ways in which both texts and images worked as vestments, garbing the true core of relics which formed the body of the cult, the book examines the cult from the core outward, seeking to understand hagiographic texts and images in terms of their role in articulating relic cults.

Virtually Virgins

Jessica L. Gregg
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Author : Jessica L. Gregg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804747563

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This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (favela) in northeastern Brazil, while exploring the complex interplay between gender, sexuality, power, and disease. It reveals how poor Brasileiras are constrained by dominant cultural constructions of female sexuality as a dangerous force that must be controlled by men; yet these women also manipulate these expectations by using their sexuality as a means to secure economic support from men. The book argues that these constructions affect their interpretations of medical discourse on the prevention of cervical cancer. Since women view sex as both a force they can't control and as a necessary tool for their survival, they choose to de-emphasize medical warnings against risky sexual behavior, with grave consequences for their health. The text is threaded with poignant, humorous, sometimes graphic, and always memorable depictions of the women’s lives in the shantytowns, making this serious anthropological study a highly readable one as well.

Rescuing Virgins: A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles

Enrique Corneiro
Rescuing Virgins A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles Book PDF

Author : Enrique Corneiro
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781387565153

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Rescuing Virgins: A Guide To Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles by Enrique Corneiro Pdf

Rescuing Virgins: A Guide to Virgin Islands Sports Collectibles tells the stories of 100 Virgin Islands athletes that have gone on to play professional sports at the highest levels. Sports categories include baseball, basketball, football, boxing, horse racing, volleyball, mixed martial arts, sailing, skiing, motor sports and Olympics.

The Coordinator: Virgins Get Deflowered

Kenta Hashiura
The Coordinator Virgins Get Deflowered Book PDF

Author : Kenta Hashiura
Publisher : wwwave comics
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:G6810000007493

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The Coordinator: Virgins Get Deflowered by Kenta Hashiura Pdf

The legendary molester was commissioned... to deflower girls!? Just what could be these girls' reasons... to want a complete stranger to deflower them?

Seventy-two Virgins

Boris Johnson
Seventy two Virgins Book PDF

Author : Boris Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780007198054

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Seventy-two Virgins by Boris Johnson Pdf

The American President, on a State Visit to Britain is giving a major address to a top-level audience in Westminster Hall. Ferocious security is provided by a joint force of the United States Secret Service and Scotland Yard. Then a stolen ambulance runs into trouble with the Parking Authorities. A hapless Member of Parliament, having mislaid his crucial pass, is barred from Westminster, his bicycle regarded as a potential lethal weapon. And a man going by the name of Jones, although born in Karachi, successfully slips through the barriers, and whole new ball game starts

War Virgin

Laura Westley
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Author : Laura Westley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Iraq War, 2003-2011
ISBN : 0692766936

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War Virgin by Laura Westley Pdf

ON MARCH 21, 2003, Army Lieutenant and West Point graduate Laura Westley invaded liberated Iraq (the Army prohibited using the word "invasion") with the full intention of keeping her virginity securely intact. For twenty-four years, she had obeyed the strict teachings of evangelical Christianity and kept her legs closed, vowing to preserve her purity for her future husband. Being at war, however, made her realize that adhering to strict religious principles perhaps wasn't worth it, not when bombs, RPGs and gunfire constantly threaten to cut your life short. WAR VIRGIN is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles Laura's journey through repression, temptation, and ultimately, liberation. This "war story" describes a woman's battle to discover, protect and own her unique identity. No veteran or West Point graduate has ever offered such a candid, irreverent look at the comically naughty, sexually charged underbelly of the military.

Like a Virgin

Richard Branson
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Author : Richard Branson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753519929

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Like a Virgin by Richard Branson Pdf

Looking for advice on setting up your own company, improving your career prospects, or developing your leadership skills? Why not ask Richard Branson? In Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You in Business School, Richard distils and shares the wisdom and experience that have made him one of the world's most recognised and respected entrepreneurs. From his 'Top 5 secrets of Business Success', to hard hitting discussions about the global financial crisis, this book brings together his best advice on all things business. It's business school, the Branson way.

Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages

Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134737550

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Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages by Kathleen Coyne Kelly Pdf

This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.