Gay Emperor Too Prickly
Gay Emperor Too Prickly

Author: Xin Yue

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1647964482

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The Emperor was like Long Yang, unapproachable. The preposterous Emperor gave an order, amongst all the imperial concubines in the imperial harem, any prince or teacher would be the empress.But the father of the prince had to be chosen by the emperor. As the saying goes, "fat water cannot fall into the hands of outsiders."The Emperor gave his imperial concubines to his brothers one by one.When the stubborn Imperial Concubine Chen An Bihan heard the imperial edict, she immediately chose to fight him with her life on the line.He never thought that Wan Qiu would actually look the same as the Imperial Concubine Chen. Furthermore, it was the dead of night for her to wear the same clothes in the Imperial Concubine Chen's palace.Unable to endure imperial maiden's begging, Wan Qiu actually agreed to replace the Imperial Concubine Chen.Mother, this emperor is actually as good as Long Yang, all the Goddess in the palace are actually in their proper clothes.But there was no need to give them all away, was there?

The Emperor's Children
The Emperor's Children

Author: Claire Messud

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2006-08-29

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 030726601X

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A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite—an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist—and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray’s nephew, Frederick “Bootie” Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie’s unexpected decisions—and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome—that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise—The Emperor’s Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year

He's Behind You
He's Behind You

Author: Jon Bradfield

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 1624

ISBN-13: 1839753706

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"Screamingly funny, utterly filthy and unexpectedly moving" – Mark Gatiss "Jon and Martin's pantomimes have huge heart. I haven't missed one for years" – Matthew Todd Above The Stag Theatre's adult pantomimes are a London institution, selling out every year. Celebrating a decade of laughter, He's Behind You! makes these acclaimed theatre scripts available for the first time, placing queer characters front and centre in popular fairytales, myths and legends. Reimagined versions of Cinderella, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Treasure Island, Jack and the Beanstalk and more combine wit, wonder and social satire with the best traditions of the great British panto.

The Enchantress of Florence
The Enchantress of Florence

Author: Salman Rushdie

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307371662

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A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerised by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is a love story and a mystery – the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other – the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia’s boyhood friend ‘il Machia’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?

The Gay Novel in America
The Gay Novel in America

Author: James Levin

Publisher: Scholarly Title

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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"...The only comprehensive account of the male homosexual as depicted in book-length American fiction... every significant reference to homosexuality in mainstream American novels [up to 1970],

The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers
The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers

Author: Georg Ebers

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13:

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v. 1. An Egyptian princess. Homo sum -- v. 2. Uarda. The burgomaster's wife -- v. 3. Cleopatra. Joshua -- v. 4. The bride of the Nile. A question -- v. 5. The emperor. The sisters -- v. 6. A thorny path. The elixir -- v. 7. In the fire of the forge. Only a word -- v. 8. Barbara Blomberg. In the Blue Pike -- v. 9. Margery. Serapis -- v. 10. Arachne. The story of my life.

The Steel Remains
The Steel Remains

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 2009-01-20

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0345513444

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A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. Some speak in whispers of the return of the Aldrain, a race of widely feared, cruel yet beautiful demons. Now Gil and two old comrades are all that stand in the way of a prophecy whose fulfillment will drown an entire world in blood. But with heroes like these, the cure is likely to be worse than the disease.