Michelle Lovric crafts novels that delve into rich historical tapestries, often set against the evocative backdrop of Venice. Her work explores the complex interplay between raw emotion and its commodification, examining themes from the quack medicine industry to the nascent print industry. Lovric's prose is noted for its literary depth and narrative skill, bringing to life compelling characters and intricate plots. She also possesses a unique ability to translate historical contexts into engaging stories, making her a distinctive voice in contemporary fiction.
An Anthology of Desire, with Facsimiles of Real Letters & Quotations from Lovers' Correspondence Throughout the Ages
Facsimile reproductions of actual love letters include the correspondence of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and other famous couples. 100,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. IP.
A romantic, interactive gift book with facsimiles of real letters and quotations from five centuries of real-life love letters. These are arranged thematically tracing the natural history of romantic love from the first Revelation to full-fired Passion, with Adoration, Propositions, Hesitation and Supplication along the way, followed by Possession, Celebration, Felicitations and Domestication. The experience of opening a real love letter for the first time is recreated - envelopes and packets contain facsimiles of real love letters from eloquent lovers. Textured papers, Victorian paintings, lithographs and line drawings complement the design.
Forget scratching and hair-pulling: once a girl gets past the age of eight, she knows her deadliest weapon is her tongue. Women’s Wicked Wit is a selection of women’s most acerbic comments on life, chock-full of quotations from Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Tallulah Bankhead, Hillary Clinton, Bette Davis, George Eliot, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Germaine Greer, Rita Hayworth, Erica Jong, Madonna, Katherine Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker, Dolly Parton, Joan Rivers, Bessie Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Edith Wharton, Oprah Winfrey, and many more. Nothing and no one escapes these women’s glare: women on women, women on men and other animals, and a huge range of other subjects, from birth to burial, romance to revenge, and money to mortality. The whole proves that when it comes to cutting remarks, the female of the species is indeed deadlier than the male.
Gathers quotes about birds and their behavior, and includes paintings of them in their natural surroundings.
Offering sample writings, historical examples, and practical advice, this invaluable and beautifully packaged book contains guidance for all occasions that call for eloquent and inspired love letters. Modern model letters to adapt and use in specific circumstances, tips on letter-writing techniques, and creative suggestions for packaging and delivering messages of love are peppered with fanciful, original Victorian illustrations, making the look of this volume as romantic as the letters within. With charming specificity, guidance and appropriate words are provided for various would-be Shakespeares, from the " morning-after lover" and the " anniversary lover" to the " frustrated lover" and the " neglected lover." Also included are a short history of epistolary romance, 76 model letters, and a host of helpful and witty epigrams.
Why confine yourself to boring monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon taunts and insults when you can defame, demean, degrade, demolish and damn in the deft language of Cierco, Martial, Ovid, Cattullus, Horace and others? Now you can impress your friends and devestate your enemies with the filth and wit of your newly-excavated repetoire of classical invective Usefully arranged in sections for the sexless, gormless, worthless and unscrupulous (etc etc), with special sections on regional taunts and useful threats, the book contains illustrations from classical sources and is immaculately researched by a young Cambridge classics scholar and an expert in the ancient languages of desire and desperation.
A stunning debut in which Venice is dying - and a long-ago prophecy of an enchanted child has been awakened from the canal's poisoned waters.
This is going to be a little uncomfortable...
Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D'Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope and Elio Zorzi. Variously a City of the Soul, The Watery City, The Merchant City, City Afloat, City at Play, The Cruel City, City of Courtesans, City of Arts, City of Flavours, The Haunted City and City of the Future, Venice is captured here in all her moods.
Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances have changed, but for women today, Christmas is still a time of joys garnered against the odds. We have moved on from stables and mangers to supermarkets and microwaves; palm fronds and shepherds have given way to a spangled conifer and a fat man in a red suit. In this anthology, reflecting the experiences of more than 50 women at Christmas, Ntozake Shange and Agatha Christie rub shoulders with Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. Curl up with a tantalizing volume that gives full reign to the seditious humor, peculiar discomforts, and exquisite social tortures of the season.
Mimosina Docezza, a Venetian actress and spy, and Valentine Greatrakes, leader of London's medical underworld, carry on a turbulent love affair and find themselves involved with a mysterious young girl, Pevenche, whose true identity is a secret.
Venice, 1468. The beautiful yet heartless Sosia Simeon is making her mark on the city, driven by a dark compulsion to steal pleasure with men from all walks of life. Across the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany, bringing with him a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. Before long a love triangle develops between Sosia, Felice, and Bruno -- who has become entranced by the verse of Catullus, the Roman erotic poet. But a far greater scandal erupts when Wendelin tempts fate by publishing the poet -- and changes all of their lives forever. Sosia, the heartless sensualist; Felice, a man who loves the crevices of the alphabet the way other men love the crevices of women; Lussieta, whose anguish gives the story its soulful heart: these and many other characters make The Floating Book an unforgettable experience for lovers of romance, history, and the printed word.
A potted version of Ambrose Bierce's deliciously wicked Devil's Dictionary. Written almost a 100 years ago, Bierce's work remains a masterpiece of cynicism and emotional depravity. Who said it was a modern malaise? B: BORE: A person who talks when you wish him to listen D: DISTANCE: The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep M: MARRIAGE: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, two slaves, making in all two S: SAUCE: The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has a thousand vices. A people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety nine. For every sauce invented and accepted, a vice is renounced and forgiven
Im Sommer 1899 erfüllt sich Teos größter Wunsch. Sie reist mit ihrer Familie nach Venedig, in die Stadt der Gondeln, Kanäle und Palazzi. Doch der Anlass der Reise ist ernst: Venedig droht im Meer zu versinken und Teos Eltern, zwei Wissenschaftler, sollen nach einer Lösung des Problems suchen. Dass ihr Schicksal eng mit der Lagunenstadt verknüpft ist, ahnt Teo nicht - bis ihr der Schlüssel zur geheimen Stadt in die Hände fällt. Das Buch entführt Teo ins Reich der Meerjungfrauen, wo sie bei einer Tasse Seetangkakao schier Unglaubliches erfährt: Laut einer uralten Prophezeiung soll sie dazu auserwählt sein, Venedig zu retten. AUSZEICHNUNGEN: Buch des Monats 2010 (Volkacher Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur)
Öffnen Sie dieses ungewöhnliche Buch, und Sie finden darin noch weitere Dinge, die Sie öffnen können. Zehn Faksimiles von echten Liebesbriefen berühmter Persönlichkeiten aus Literatur, Kunst und Musik. Bezaubernde Gemälde und Accessoires des 18. bis 19. Jahrhunderts liefern den stimmungsvollen Rahmen für mehr als hundertzwanzig weitere Originalzitate aus den Briefen berühmter Liebespaare der Weltgeschichte.
Michelle Lovric legt einen weiteren "Love Letters"-Band vor. In Museen und Bibliotheken hat sie Briefe berühmter Liebespaare aufgespürt, deren Inhalte von einer Leidenschaft zeugen, die alle Konventionen sprengt. Da kommen Napoleon zu Wort, der französische Schriftsteller Gustave Flaubert oder die berühmte Tänzerin Isadora Duncan.
