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The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive.

"IN ROME OF LOVELY WOMEN THERE IS NO DEARTH; HEREYOU SHALL FIND THEPICK OF ALL THE EARTH" Translated by B. P. Moore. Illustrated by Eric Fraser.The Ars Amatoria (English: The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. It teaches basic gentlemanly male and female relationship skills and techniques.IF there be anyone among you who is ignorant of the art of loving, let him read this poem and, having read it and acquired the knowledge it contains, let him address himself to Love.Heritage Press, Avon, Connecticut (1971). With SANDGLASS. The Heritage Club Edition.Binding is parchment -finish fabric, stamped in pigment and pure gold leaf. antique white with red and gold designs. A BOOK TO FALL IN LOVE WITH.

No dust jacketStated Fourth PrintingNo writing, color vibrant, clean pages.
Book in very good condition. Ownership label on front end paper.

Source: Library of the World's Best Literature, 1896-1902. "Mrs Humphry Ward's first story , (Miss Breterton,) which appeared in 1884, made no great stir; but it was a charming and thoroughly well-done piece of fiction, reveiling marked ability in character study ,and a comprehension of English society. . . .By the publication of ( Robert Elsllmere ) four years later, in 1888, its writer defined her position and gave a clear idea of her quality . The book made a deep impression." Mrs. Ward was very instrumental in introducing woman fiction writers in the 18th century. There were very few...
New York, The Macmillian Company, 1898. Copyright 1989. Set up and electrotyped, May, 1898. Reprinted , June,August, twice,Septemaber 1898; October, 1898. Book in very good ondition, clean, color vibrant,some shelfwear,very clean, text is clear and bright, one small spot on page 209. Spine is in tact, it is ever so slightly cocked,can be easily repaired.

Redirected from The Wanderer (Alain-Fournier novel)) Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier who was killed in the first month of WW I. It is somewhat biographical - especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, with whom he had a doomed infatuation in Paris. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his friendship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood... The Illustrator Andre Dignimont has made for this Edition, thirty two pen- and-pencil-plus-wash drawings, a three in-one technique that combines grace with strength, delicacy with power. Beautiful Gift to be appreciated for many years.HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1958. Heritage Club Edition with SANDGLASS. Translated by Francoise Delisle, introduction by Henri Delisle and Illustrated by Dignimont. Near Mint, clean and… Read More

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida–even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces–a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial.This audacious exploration into the nature of love–its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread–is rich in characters, striking scenes, and a profound understanding of how alive the past can be. A major addition to the canon of one of the world's literary masters.

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith--in an evocative novel set against late seventeenth-century America, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. 300,000 first printing.

Subtitled "a romance", Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer. Seven years into their marriage, they decide to take a sabbatical, a sailboat journey on which they sum up their years together and try to make important decisions about the years ahead. True to its subtitle, the novel combines the mysterious and marvelous (unexplained disappearances; a fabled sea monster in Chesapeake Bay) with romantic love and daring adventure. The story of a couple and a nine-month voyage from Chesapeake Bay to the Caribbean and back.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
Illustrated by Sir Hubert vov Herkomer,R. A. Very Good condition, Gold gilt has one small bump at bottom, small imperfection on top gilt. High quality paper. acid free paper is 60 pound Franklin Library 1854 Cream. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. A very good copy

The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships with older women. John Irving renders Jack's life as an actor in Hollywood with the same richness of detail and range of emotions he uses to describe the tattoo parlors in those North Sea ports and the reverberating music Jack heard as a child in European churches .