The Seduction & Other Stories
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1984 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Greene |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2010-09-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1847651402 |
Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.
Author | : Peter Brooks |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1681376636 |
In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from The Girl on the Train to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.
Author | : Thomas Beller |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393326826 |
Ten stories "of lonely friends and yearning lovers caught in the lights of modern Manhattan, and of the children and adolescents who grow up there."
Author | : Amanda Quick |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-09-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307575578 |
Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, murky waters of Ravenwood Pond. Others whispered of foul play and the devil's wrath. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride. Drawn to his masculine strength and the glitter of desire that burned in his emerald eyes, the tawny-haired lass had her own reasons for agreeing to a marriage of convenience. One was vengeance, and in its pursuit she would entangle Julian in a blackmail plot, a duel at dawn, and a dangerous masquerade. The other reason was dearer to her heart, but just as wild a quest: Sophy Dorring intended to teach the devil to love again.
Author | : Jane Porter |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2010-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1426863640 |
From sensible secretary…to sexy siren! Handsome business tycoon Morgan Grady hasjust been voted News Weekly's Man of the Year.Eager to move out of the media spotlight,Morgan decides it's time he found himself awife. So New York's most eligible bachelorproposes to the one woman he knows he cantrust—his sensible assistant, Winnie Graham!Alone on his exotic private island, Morgandiscovers that Winnie's composed exteriorhides a storm of passion and desire.The sexualattraction that had always simmered gentlybetween them suddenly ignites into an inferno!Morgan wants Winnie, but a woman this feistywill never settle for being a convenient wife.She demands nothing less than her cynicalboss's heart…
Author | : Geneva Holliday |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 076792746X |
In Geneva Holliday's latest novel of lust and revenge, Seduction works both ways. Mildred Johnson is the last woman on earth that gorgeous Tony Landry would dare to be seen with. That is, until Tony wants to pull a scam on the company where she works. In order to keep Mildred signing phony documents, Tony gives Mildred a taste of romance and keeps raising the stakes until he's eventually forced to propose. But when the big day arrives he skips town with the money he's stolen. Heartbroken, Mildred takes a trip to Barbados where her "vacation" turns out to be a boot-camp style weight loss clinic! Soon she discovers a goddess that had been hiding beneath her homely exterior. And when she runs into Tony on the island, he doesn't even recognize the sexy fox standing before him. Little does he know that this fox has a plan for revenge that will leave him whimpering with his tail between his legs for a good, long time.
Author | : Brenda Joyce |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1460301897 |
Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinary—and dangerous—powers. But he has already broken his vows—and a young woman’s death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasure…until fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller Claire Camden. Since her mother’s murder, Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city where danger lurks on every street corner, especially in the dark of night. But nothing can prepare her for the powerful and sexual medieval warrior who sweeps her back into his time—a treacherous, frightening world where the hunters and the hunted are one and the same. Claire needs Malcolm to survive, yet she must somehow keep the dangerously seductive Master at arm’s length. For Malcolm’s soul is at stake—and fulfilling his desires could prove fatal….
Author | : Peter Brooks |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2012-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307962822 |
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.