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Regency England Undressed: Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of Her Age: 2016
ISBN: 9780993355226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lesley Blanch's novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary. The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year. Harriette Wilson lived among and was an integral part of a wealthy society where privilege, arrogance and leisure flourished. The greatest courtesan of her age, her patrons included many of the distinguished men of her day, from the Duke of...
Lesley Blanch's novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 ...
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The Wilder Shores of Love
ISBN: 9781439197349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch's first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan's harem; and...
Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the...
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Pavilions of the Heart: The Four Walls of Love
ISBN: 9781845116033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings caves, convents, harems and villas - where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Her subjects are chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination. Some of the stories are of great and famous love affairs, others largely unknown - though no less intriguing. Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair in a suburban house in London; Pushkin and Countess Woronzov's trysts in a cave beside the Black Sea;...
Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings caves, convents, harems and villas - where lovers have come togethe...
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The Wilder Shores Of Love
ISBN: 9780753827918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'The Wilder Shores of Love' focuses on four variations on the theme of the 19th century woman who turns to the East for her adventurous life and love.
'The Wilder Shores of Love' focuses on four variations on the theme of the 19th century woman who turns to the East for her adventurous life and love....
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Nine Tiger Man: A Satirical Romance
ISBN: 9780993092749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. JOHN BARKHAM, NEW YORK WORLD A delicious tale of low behaviour in high places; with particular attention to the activities of an irresistible and gifted East Indian Prince who takes his own form of revenge against the entire English Empire by inducting a bevy of highborn English females into the fine points of Oriental eroticism, proving that Debrett's Peerage is no match at all for the Karma Sutra . . . TIME Wildly funny. The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the...
JOHN BARKHAM, NEW YORK WORLD A delicious tale of low behaviour in high places; with particular attention to the activities of an irresistible and gift...
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The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus
ISBN: 9780993092725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. PHILIP MARSDEN: Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its particularities, the quirks of individuals and their personal narratives, their deluded ambitions, their vanities and passions. THE GUARDIAN: Crammed with truly fabulous stories of fighting and love and violent death . . . this profound and exhilarating book turns the struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia into a universal saga . . . it is no wonder Shamyl had such a powerful influence on Tolstoy and Pushkin. Biography...
PHILIP MARSDEN: Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its parti...
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