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Emma March was only doing her job caring for the late Valentino Fiorenza. She expected no mention in his will, let alone a stipulation to marry his son! But financially, she's desperate… Rafaele will treat Emma like the moneygrubbing harlot he thinks she is. He'll wed her, bed her and destroy her. But then he discovers his new wife is a virgin! He's forced an innocent woman down the aisle….
Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, t...
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train” (Oscar Wilde). Literature has always treated the sensational: crime, passion, violence, trauma, catastrophe. It has frequently caused, or been at the centre of scandal, censorship and moral outrage. But literature is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less well understood. It mediates between the sensory world, perception and cognition through rich modes of thought allied with perceptions and emotions and makes sense of profound questions that transcend the merely rational. And at its boundaries, literature engages with the uncanny realm in which knowledge, present...
Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the usefulness of the study of discourse and exemplifies how the two discourse analytical perspectives can be combined to offer diverse and problem-oriented strategies in the study of politics, identity, and social change.
Tinha de se casar... com aquela que fora a amante do seu pai! Emma March só fizera o seu trabalho: cuidar do recentemente falecido Valentino Fiorenza. Não esperava que a tivesse incluído no seu testamento e muito menos que impusesse como condição que se casasse com o seu filho. Contudo, estava numa situação económica muito complicada... Rafaele decidiu tratar Emma como a caçadora de fortunas que acreditava que era. Casar-se-ia com ela, iria para a cama com ela e destruí-la-ia. Mas então descobriu que a sua esposa era virgem...
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The Fiorenza Forced Marriage Rafaele Fiorenza is furious when he learns that the only way to his inheritance is marriage! Emma March was his late father’s carer, but Rafaele has no doubt she was also his money-chasing mistress – until he discovers that his new wife is a virgin!
Emma ed Elisa la bambina e la bambola, lo scambio meraviglioso dell'infanzia. Il grande mondo dell'universo terreno invaso dal sogno fiabesco, di un lungo incanto, a volte terribile, altre gioioso. La corsa di un orsetto nell'estenuante gioco del ritrovarsi, il mostro, la principessa e il lieto fine. Nel filtro di due mondi - l'ultima favola - trova le note più fantasiose per esplorare il mondo ed il cosmo; avendo come incipit la mano tesa verso la fanciullezza e l'adolescenza, le paure e il primo amore. - Entrambi i ragazzi si avvicinano ai grandi e dicono: " Incredibile, abbiamo visto il cosmo!" -
A searing look at the human face of BP's disaster in the gulf It is the largest oil disaster in American history, and it could happen again. It is more than a story of ruined beaches, dead wildlife, corporate spin, political machinations, and financial fallout. It is a riveting human drama filled with people whose lives will forever be defined as "before" and "after the gulf oil disaster." Black Tide is the only book to tell this story through the perspective of people on all sides of the catastrophe, from those who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods to those who made the policies that set the devastating event in motion, those who cut the corners that put corporate profits over p...
Doctor Jonathan Ransom thought he knew everything about his wife Emma until she was killed in a tragic skiing accident in the Swiss Alps. They had been married for eight years, eight blissful years in which they had travelled the world together. But the day after her death a mysterious letter addressed to her arrives at their hotel. When he opens it, his beliefs begin to unravel -- fast. . In the envelope is a railway baggage check to a suitcase that reveals an Emma far removed from the down-to-earth nurse who has been his constant and loyal companion all those years. In it he discovers the clues to a double life. Was she having an affair? When is your wife not your wife? And when she is not your wife, who is she? The answers begin right outside the train station where two policeman are waiting - to kill him. There are more answers as Jonathan escapes and the action sweeps him through Switzerland on a quest to discover the truth abut Emma. He is pursued by ruthless killers, entangled in an international conspiracy that touches all the world's Security Services and which will end in a denouement which is as breathtaking as it is totally unexpected.