The King's Bed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's Bed write by Don Jordan. This book was released on 2015-01-08. The King's Bed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The King's Bed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's Bed write by Margaret Campbell Barnes. This book was released on 1961. The King's Bed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed write by Theo Pauline Nestor. This book was released on 2009-02-03. How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “I feel like I’ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,” writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce. Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from “middle-class grace” as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and–much to her surprise–falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her sense of self, she’s forced to confront her own family’s legacy of divorce. “I’m from a long line of stock market speculators, artists of unmarketable talents, and alcoholics,” writes Nestor. “The higher, harder road is not our road. We move, we divorce, we drink, or we disappear.” Nestor’s journey takes her deep into her family’s past, to a tiny village in Mexico, where she discovers the truth about how her sister ended up living in a convent there after their parents divorced in the early sixties. What she learns ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce and its impact on her two daughters. “I knew from experience that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed. When you’re with one parent, the other must always slip out of view,” Nestor writes. Funny, openhearted, and brave, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed will speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of divorce court or risked tenderness after loss. It marks the debut of an enchanting, deeply truthful voice.
A Bed for the King's Daughter
A Bed for the King's Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Bed for the King's Daughter write by Shahla Ujayli. This book was released on 2021-01-19. A Bed for the King's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The King's Bed
The King's Bed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The King's Bed write by Margaret C. Barns. This book was released on 1981. The King's Bed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
