Experience a gripping journey into the dark and dangerous world of secrecy and deceit as a high class mistress in this romantic suspense. Follow Sophia Huston as she embarks on a secret business venture as a high-class mistress to several wealthy men, risking blackmail and betrayal as she uses all her cunning and intelligence to survive and reclaim her luxurious lifestyle. Based on a true story, this fast-paced contemporary suspense novel will keep you hooked until the very end with its complex characters, thrilling plot and inspired by true events storyline. If you're a fan of high-stakes suspense, you won't want to miss this page-turner. Reader reviews of this award winning suspense: Wow, I just put this book down with one of those lingering afterglows you get when you want to savor what you've just read... This is certainly a unique story! I don't always review the books I read, but two days later it's still on my mind--it was a page-turner that drew me into the characters' lives and made me care about them. Definitely recommend! The only down side of Duplicity is my lack of sleep- it kept me gripped until the wee hours. Once I started it, I didn't want to put it down. Really enjoyed this book and would recommend it.

Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde. He analyses each of his works on the basis of a textually oriented interpretation, taking equal account of the biographical and intellectual contexts through the use of contradictions that Wilde show as individualism and convention.

Daehlieon Carbe couldn't find real love if it slapped him in the face. A man, whose present has been corrupted by his past, while he survives on misguided optimism the voices in his head, tells him how to play the game of life. He journeys through life and literally is forced to come to grips with his inner-self. There's no shortage of secrets with Daehlieon Carbe, where lust, temptation and lies are concerned. He weaves a web of undetected perversion using his charismatic charm and trickery to beguile seven women, crippling their independence. Then things tend to take on another level with supernatural controlling factors unfolding over seven eventful years on several different horizons. How long will it take for the seven women to expose the masked duplicity of Daehlieon Carbe? Will any of them? How many of the enticed bitter women will try to save him in spite of their own pain? It's true that women fall all over him wherever he shows up.

A funny, tell-all memoir from the New York Times' most controversial restaurant critic.

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative prose that details balls, tea parties, and horseback rides with poetic interludes that depict her protagonist’s inner world—and biting irony that pervades a seemingly romantic description of a young woman who has everything. A Double Life tells the story of Cecily, who is being trapped into marriage by her well-meaning mother; her best friend, Olga; and Olga’s mother, who means to clear the way for a wealthier suitor for her own daughter by marrying off Cecily first. Cecily’s privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her. Only in the seclusion of her bedroom is her imagination freed: each day of deception is followed by a night of dreams described in soaring verse. Pavlova subtly speaks against the limitations placed on women and especially women writers, which translator Barbara Heldt highlights in a critical introduction. Among the greatest works of literature by a Russian woman writer, A Double Life is worthy of a central place in the Russian canon.