The Romance of Violette
Author: Attributed to Alexander Dumas Pere
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1465533435
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The Romance of Violette
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: Olympiapress.Com
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781596545151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman de Violette is the tale of a beautiful girl, the object of desire for both a young man and a rather determined lesbian, culminating in a fabulous menage-a-trois. The book is attributed (on scant evidence) to Dumas, though we at Olympia at least acknowledge that the great man had nothing whatsoever to do with The Cousins.
Perfect Match
Author: Violette Grey
Publisher:
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781973432418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarrie Johnson likes to approach life cautiously. Thirty years old and starting her fourth year of teaching, she is all about playing by the rules. All she needs now is to find someone as calm and collective as she is--her perfect match.Alice Crombly lives life on the edge, testing boundaries and doing whatever she can to push herself and others past them. As a model and ring girl, she loves being the center of attention but is looking for someone to go on the wild adventure of life with her.When Carrie goes on a date with Alice, she is transfixed not only by her beauty, but her confidence as well. And though Alice is everything she desires and more, what attracts her to Alice may be the very thing that pushes them apart.
Warrior
Author: Violette Dubrinsky
Publisher:
Published: 2011-08-03
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9781463784911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men. What she does not expect is the arrival of Vulcan Mor'an, the High King of the Northlands and the one man she despises above all, who seems to believe he is now the rightful ruler of her kingdom. Even as he provides support for his claim, Jaisyn refuses to listen. She will meet Vulcan Mor'an on the battlefield before willingly handing her kingdom to a barbarian she blames for the death of a loved one!Born to a ruthless warlord of a father, Vulcan Mor'an is powerful, fierce and quite deadly. His prowess is legendary, and those who don't fear the Northern Wolf, respect his skill on the battlefield and his reach beyond it. Vulcan prides himself on his strength, and with it, his lack of weakness. That is, until he encounters a spitfire princess intent on murdering him in his sleep. Jaisyn of Lytheria is unlike any lady Vulcan has encountered. In her golden body is a fierce adversary, a woman who does not cower in his presence like most but fights his every step with a stubbornness that both irritates and captivates him. This princess may become the one person capable of bringing him to his knees. Warrior is the tale of two feuding royals, their attraction despite their differences, and the consequences that come as a result of their union. With various obstacles threatening to tear them apart, Jaisyn St. Ives and Vulcan Mor'an struggle to keep their relationship afloat, and with it, their very lives.
The Romance of Violette
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-05-24
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781099945168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParis. The city of romance and passion ... The city of sin! Paris is the city where young nymphette Violette ends up in a hot and lustful menage à trois ... Before internet porn, before porn videos, before porn movies, people lusting for raunchy, X-rated entertainment read pornographic books and magazines. Victorian and Edwardian England had its own adult entertainment industry - countless erotic novels were put out by shady publishers, some books were printed by the authors themselves, and most of the writers were anonymous. Many of these 19th century books are surprisingly kinky, and some of them may be quite offensive to modern day readers - in more ways than one. The anonymously written "The Romance of Violette" is a great example of Victorian erotica. The author is still unknown.
Astrid Cane
Author: Anon Anonymous
Publisher: Disruptive Publishing
Published: 2013-01-19
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 162657121X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComing-of-age tale about a young girl who is slowly but surely (and lingeringly) initiated into the world of womanhood, and dominatrix-dom. First trained by Lady Julia Tingle, Astrid becomes a feared and desired mistress in her own right, leading us through numerous encounters with both men and women.
The Romance of the Violet and Other Wager Tales from Medieval France
Author:
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-08-14
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1476694370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA high-stakes wager placed on a woman's virtue; men who spy on bathing women; tell-tale birthmarks; cross-dressing; dragons; tournaments; and aristocrats bursting into song--these features and more appear in the three stories translated here, all versions of the folktale known as "the wager tale." Such stories were especially popular in thirteenth-century France, when noblemen fulfilled their feudal duties far from home. Did their women remain faithful? A pressing question, for only female chastity guaranteed the legitimacy of heirs. This collection offers the first translations into English of The Romance of the Violet and The Count of Poitiers, along with a new version of The Tale of King Flore and the Fair Joan. The first paints a vivid portrait of thirteenth-century courtly life. The second, set in the eighth-century court of King Pepin, includes both a wager tale and a bride quest, the latter involving a shocking scene of female group nudity. Flore and Joan takes a different tack, presenting a clear-eyed heroine who overcomes daunting odds by posing as a man. These medieval tales portray strong women who gainsay social control of their bodies, thereby winning the respect of men--a scenario that resonates even today.
Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930
Author: Peter Mendes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 1351951076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').
LGBT Victorians
Author: Simon Joyce
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 019267420X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other, on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self-identification. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition. LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process, it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
Western European Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Anrdei Sterligov
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 739
ISBN-13: 1644617943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnyone fortunate enough to have actually held a medieval manuscript in his hands must have felt excited at this immediate contact with the past. Both famous and unknown authors wrote philosophical, natural scientific and theological treatises, romances about knights and courtly love; humanists and theologists translated and commented upon the classical literature of antiquity; travellers wrote descriptions of their incredible journeys; and ascetic chroniclers recorded and kept alive the historic events of their times for future generations.
