The King's Bed
Title | The King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Campbell Barnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN |
The King's Bed
Title | The King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Don Jordan |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2015-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1405528893 |
To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, colouring the way the nation was run. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favourites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor. The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.
The King's Bed
Title | The King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret C. Barns |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780441445189 |
A Bed for the King's Daughter
Title | A Bed for the King's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Shahla Ujayli |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2021-01-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1477322302 |
A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women’s agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In “The Memoir of Cinderella’s Shoes,” Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In “Tell Me About Surrealism,” an art history professor’s writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in “Merry Christmas,” the realities of apartheid interfere with one family’s celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates—with brevity and inventiveness—themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it.
How to Sleep Alone in a King-size Bed
Title | How to Sleep Alone in a King-size Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Pauline Nestor |
Publisher | Crown Pub |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307346765 |
A memoir of life after divorce describes how the author left her gambling-addict husband and struggled to build a new life for her two young daughters while dealing with the family legacy of divorce and coming to terms with single life and parenthood.
King's Bed
Title | King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Campbell Barnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
King's Bed
Title | King's Bed PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Campbell Barnes |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1861 |
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