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Reflected Pleasures

2010-08-01 Fiction
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Release : 2010-08-01
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Book Synopsis Reflected Pleasures by : Linda Conrad

Download or read book Reflected Pleasures written by Linda Conrad. This book was released on 2010-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strong-willed Texan had a swagger in his step and a chip on his shoulder, and Merri Davis was just one more assistant who had been hired to try to keep him in line. Until a strange Gypsy gave Tyson the gift of an old mirror--and suddenly, his practical, plain Jane assistant began to look mysterious--and completely irresistible.... Tyson's blue-eyed intensity threatened to expose her secret, yet Merri couldn't deny her response to the heat reflected in his hawk-like gaze. She was falling for a man who valued integrity above everything...a man she was deceiving.

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

2010-06-14 Psychology
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Release : 2010-06-14
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by : Paul Bloom

Download or read book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like written by Paul Bloom. This book was released on 2010-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging, evocative…[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing’s history, origin, and deeper nature.

Guilty Pleasures

2018-09-24 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-09-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 660/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Guilty Pleasures by : Hugh McIntosh

Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Hugh McIntosh. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guilty pleasures in one’s reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived in the public sphere as at once beloved and contested objects, an ambivalence that reflected and informed America’s cultural insecurity. This became a matter of nationhood as well as aesthetics: the amateurism of popular narratives resonated with the discourse of new nationhood. In Guilty Pleasures, Hugh McIntosh examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to such best-sellers as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ben Hur, and Trilby as well as fictional representations—from Trollope to Baldwin—of American culture’s lack of artistic greatness. Drawing on a transatlantic archive of contemporary criticism, urban display, parody, and advertising, Guilty Pleasures thoroughly documents how the conflicted attitude toward popular novels shaped these ephemeral modes of response. Paying close attention to this material history of novel reading, McIntosh reveals how popular fiction’s unique status as socially saturating and aesthetically questionable inspired public reflection on what it meant to belong to a flawed national community.

Enchanting Pleasures

2009-09-02 Fiction
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Release : 2009-09-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 497/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Enchanting Pleasures by : Eloisa James

Download or read book Enchanting Pleasures written by Eloisa James. This book was released on 2009-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People magazine named Eloisa James’ novel Midnight Pleasures “Page Turner of the Week” and raved “Romance writing does not get much better than this.” Now the acclaimed author returns with another sumptuous tale of passion and misadventure in Regency England. . . . Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes the portrait of her betrothed, the perfect Peter Dewland . . . until she meets his commanding older brother Quill. But it is Peter to whom she has been promised. And how can she possibly transform her voluptuous, outspoken self into the poised gentlewoman Peter requires? When Gabby’s shocking décolletage plunges to her waist at her first ball, Peter is humiliated. But Quill comes to the rescue, to the peril of his heart. An accident years before has left Quill plagued by headaches—the kind that grows more excruciating with strenuous exercise. Needless to say, this hardly bodes well for siring progeny. But the very sight of Gabby leaves Quill breathless. One forbidden kiss and Quill vows to have her, headaches—and Peter—be damned! But it will take a clever man—and a cleverer woman--to turn the tables on propriety and find their way to true love. . . . BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Eloisa James's Paris in Love. Praise for Enchanting Pleasures “Another winner . . . delightful heroine, masterful hero, and an ingenious plot: intelligent, sexy fun.”—Kirkus Reviews “Charasmatic characters and a healthy dose of humor . . . once again, James weaves a story as rich in plot as in character.”—Publishers Weekly

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

2022-05-03 Fiction
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Release : 2022-05-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by : Clarice Lispector

Download or read book An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”

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