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"The Child of Pleasure BOOK III" by Gabriele D’Annunzio is a captivating novel that epitomizes the essence of Italian literature within the context of the Decadent movement. D’Annunzio’s …

"The Child of Pleasure BOOK I" by Gabriele D’Annunzio is a captivating novel that epitomizes the essence of Italian literature within the context of the Decadent movement. D’Annunzio’s …

"Mabel: A Novel Vol. 3" by Mrs. C. J. Newby intricately weaves a Victorian tapestry of love, society, and drama. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century British society, Newby’s fiction …

"A Laodicean: A Story of To-day" by Thomas Hardy intricately weaves elements of Victorian literature into a captivating romance, exploring themes of social class, industrialization, and the …

”An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world” The Times Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan”s most dramatic history, Memoirs of a Geisha uncovers a hidden world of erotici …

In ”Forsaking All Others”, Julia Nicholson is blissfully happy. She”s married to the wonderful David, they have a gorgeous home and a ginger kitten called Kitchen, and she wouldn”t change a thing …

In ”Lisa”, Paul Buchanan is used to women falling at his feet. So when he meets dowdy little Lisa Aitken at his publisher”s office, he is surprised when she appears immune to his charms. Piqued, h …

Endlessly taking clothes to the laundrette, cooking and cleaning is all going to be worth it to be Mrs Colin Lang. Until a disastrous night out with Colin”s work colleagues, and an encounter with a …

Work hard, play harder. . . Eclipsed by the high-powered businesspeople that surround her, shy Laura Irving spends her time absorbed in her own workplace-fantasies. So when the masterful and arrogant …

A society lady…with a secret!Determined to help people, Letty Barton has a double life – she’s a trained doctor! No-one must know ”Dr Hatfield” is actually a woman. Called to an emergency, she …