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Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers. She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing lavish gowns and dazzling jewels. She was envied, admired,...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Fiendishly funny and dark, here is a Canterbury Tales for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperation
Tibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, London). Now he earns the title again with a story collection that ranges from the blackest, high-voltage humor to sober and moving pessimism about the sorry condition of humans at the new millennium.
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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
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Description
"Looks deeply into the psychology, self-conceptions, and self-deceptions of one of the world's most famous con men and seducers, offering a gripping, mature, and devastating account of an Enlightenment man, freed from the bounds of moral convictions."--
18) The global etiquette guide to Europe: everything you need to know for business and travel success
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English