The Pleasure Palace
Author: Joan Lee
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780440169505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome abroad the world's most luxurious ocean liner.
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The Palace of Pleasure
Author: William Painter
Publisher:
Published: 1890
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
Author: Adam Williams
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 904
ISBN-13: 1466872276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorthern China, 1899. As the Boxer Rebellion erupts, a cast of innocents, fanatics, sinners, and lovers are drawn to the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - an infamous brothel that overlooks an execution ground - where the fury of the East will meet the ideals of the West and all will face their destiny. Adam Williams's first novel is a historical tour-de-force and a triumphant return to traditional storytelling on a truly grand scale.
PALACE OF PLEASURE,
Author: WILLIAM. PAINTER
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033600184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Duchess of Malfi
Author: John Webster
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997-06-15
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780719043574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Palaces of Pleasure
Author: Lee Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0300245092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century’s growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created ‘palaces of pleasure’. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb ‘immorality’ in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The Victorians’ unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
The Devil's Pleasure Palace
Author: Michael Walsh
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2017-05-23
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1594039283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world’s premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, the burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war’s refugees, but many of their ideas as well, and nothing has proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt School and its reactionary philosophy of “critical theory.” In The Devil's Pleasure Palace, Michael Walsh describes how Critical Theory released a horde of demons into the American psyche. When everything could be questioned, nothing could be real, and the muscular, confident empiricism that had just won the war gave way, in less than a generation, to a central-European nihilism celebrated on college campuses across the United States. Seizing the high ground of academe and the arts, the New Nihilists set about dissolving the bedrock of the country, from patriotism to marriage to the family to military service. They have sown, as Cardinal Bergoglio—now Pope Francis—once wrote of the Devil, “destruction, division, hatred, and calumny,” and all disguised as the search for truth. The Devil's Pleasure Palace exposes the overlooked movement that is Critical Theory and explains how it took root in America and, once established and gestated, how it has affected nearly every aspect of American life and society.
The Pleasure Palace
Author: Evangeline Anderson
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2013-10-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0758283091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this erotic sci-fi adventure, an inter-planetary peace officer’s latest mission takes her and her gorgeous boss to the sexiest place in the galaxy. In The Future, Pleasure Has No Limits . . . Peace Control Officer Shaina takes on a dangerous off-planet mission: to infiltrate the infamous Pleasure Palace on Syrus Six. Ready when you are. Tyson, her commanding officer, just so happens to be the sexiest guy in the galaxy. Now they’ll have to pose as a wealthy mistress and her obedient slave. And Shaina wants nothing more than Tyson’s hot, sculpted body against hers, his hands on her skin, his touch branding her. Controlling her desires will be impossible. But she must surrender to the intense pleasure only he can bring her. Tyson’s sensual skills are out-of-this-world . . . Praise for the writing of New York Times & USA Today–bestselling author Evangeline Anderson “Evangeline Anderson’s sci-fi fantasy is highly imaginative . . . And sexy.” —RT Book Reviews “Kept me up all night . . . Sexy and funny!” —MaryJanice Davidson on Take Two Warning! This Is A Really Hot Book! (Sexually Explicit)
Delamotte's Crystal Palace
Author: Ian Leith
Publisher: Historic England
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents 47 photographs, which were all taken in 1859 by Philip Henry Delamotte and showed the interior of the Crystal Palace after it had been rebuilt in Sydenham, London and before it was destroyed for the first time by fire in 1866. These photographs are now housed in English Heritage's photographic archive, the National Monuments Record. All 47 photographs are beautifully reproduced in this book, as well as shots of the building in its original Hyde Park site where it was built for the great exhibition of 1851. Also included are views of the Crystal Palace when it was rebuilt after the 1866 fire and then when it was destroyed again by fire in 1936. The book also tells the story of this legendary Victorian pleasure dome and its many incarnations. Much of our previous knowledge of this important building and its contents came almost entirely from engravings. The reproduction of these high quality original photographs allows, for the first time, a much fuller appreciation of one of the most important architectural and cultural features of mid-Victorian England, which in its heyday was visited by many millions of people.
In Search of the Pleasure Palace
Author: Marc Almond
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2011-03-21
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0330540807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens to people like me who were once "pop" stars? Am I destined for a life of daytime television appearances, reunion tours and well-meaning strangers struggling to recognize me before hesitatingly asking "didn't you use to be Marc Almond?"' Despite an impending 45th birthday, a milestone age that can often result in some sort of mid-life crisis, Marc Almond, singer and songwriter, is not quite ready to take his place on the 'they were once famous' line-up. In Search of the Pleasure Palace, is Marc Almond’s search for meaning in life now that he is in the Indian summer of his career. In this rollercoaster journey, Marc goes in pursuit of the thrills, spills and bellyaches that made each day of his youth memorable and created an image of him that was decadent, debauched and worryingly misunderstood. From swingers nights in Henley-on-Thames to the lost absinthe bars of Barcelona, from Russia's surreal underbelly to the pre-Giuliani clean-up of New York, Marc is your observant guide to a world that he was once master of -- through fantastic, wry anecdote.
