Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Publisher:

Published: 1869

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London's ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt's dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky's misguided sexual entanglements.

Pretty Things
Pretty Things

Author: Sarra Manning

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780142405390

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From the author of "Guitar Girl" comes this girl-loves-boy-loves-boy-loves-girl romp set against a theatrical presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in London.

Rescue Me
Rescue Me

Author: Sarra Manning

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1529336562

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Margot doesn't have time for love. Will is afraid to love. And neither of them are expecting to fall in love with Blossom: a gentle Staffy with a tragic past, a belly made for rubbing and a head the size of a football. After their first meeting at the rescue centre, both Margot and Will want to adopt Blossom so reluctantly agree to share custody. But Will's obsession for micro-managing and clear-cut boundaries and Margot's need to smother Blossom with affection, means that soon they have a very confused and badly behaved dog on their hands. Can they put their differences aside to become successful "co-pawrents" and maybe even friends? And meanwhile, does Blossom have plans of her own?

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790–1910
The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790–1910

Author: Heather L. Braun

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1611475635

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The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps explores the femme fatale’s careerin nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution—and devolution—formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal correspondence. Considering well-known fatal women alongside more obscure ones, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, sexuality, and power throughout the long nineteenth century. By placing the fatal woman in a still developing literary and cultural narrative, this study examines how the femme fatale adapts over time, reflecting popular tastes and socio-economic landscapes.

The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Author: Alexander Saxton

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781859844670

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Saxton asks why white racism remained an ideological force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared.

The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp
The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp

Author: Micah Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9780981677040

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A Lovecraftian Tale of High Adventure! Her creator William Makepeace Thackeray described her as "the despicable woman who will bring them all down." Now, in a stand-alone novel that can be fully enjoyed without having read Thackeray's classic Vanity Fair, his villainess Becky Sharp enters the Cthulhu Mythos as an agent of Lovecraft's Great Race of Yith!