True Pleasures
Title | True Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Lucinda Holdforth |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1742743625 |
Meet the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion - Paris, the world's headquarters of femininity. At a turning point in her life, Lucinda Holdforth journeys to Paris and takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves and losses of its celebrated women. She evokes the incarnations of the city from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars and the Paris of the new millennium. And, as she walks in their footsteps, Lucinda draws inspiration from the fascinating women who created and nurtured the world's most civilised city. This enjoyable companion will seduce and delight - and inspire every woman in search of her own true pleasures...
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Title | An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Clarice Lispector |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 2022-05-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811230678 |
Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”
Small Pleasures
Title | Small Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Chambers |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063091003 |
In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."--The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchen’s gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life. Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives…with unimaginable consequences. Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
Healthy Pleasures
Title | Healthy Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Ornstein |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1990-01-22 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780201523850 |
Explores ways to extend our lives as we enrich them, by understanding the role of pleasure in our health.
The Book of Idle Pleasures
Title | The Book of Idle Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Hodgkinson |
Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2010-05-18 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0740785087 |
The Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things in life really are free. Clever and sometimes all too true in its reflections on 100 simple pastimes--among them slouching, skipping stones, staring out the window, doodling, and, natch, taking a nap--The Book of Idle Pleasures is a charming celebration of simple pleasures for the sake of pleasure itself, making it a soothing antidote for our nonstop culture and an ideal restorative against the costly confusion of our daily existence.
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXIV (2008)
Title | Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXIV (2008) PDF eBook |
Author | John Joseph Cleary |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004177426 |
This volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2007-8. The papers discuss a wide range of topics related to Plato and Aristotle. On Plato, topics include false pleasures in the "Philebus," the tripartite soul in the "Republic," and rhetoric in the "Phaedrus," and on Aristotle, the relation of the physical and psychological in "De Anima," of virtue and happiness in the "Ethics," of body and nature in the "Physics," and the role of pros hen in the "Metaphysics." One other paper argues for the Aristotelian origin of Stoic determinism.
The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists
Title | The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists PDF eBook |
Author | James Warren |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107025443 |
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?