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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Womenby Alexa AlbertISBN 0449006581 (0-449-00658-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women'Book summary:A journey into a fascinating subculture, Alexa Albert's exploration of Nevada's infamous cathouses began as a public-health study into the safe-sex practices of these legal working girls and the effectiveness of condom requirements in preventing sexually transmitted diseases. It took her three years to gain access to the brothels, and when her project was eventually approved by the head of the Nevada Brothel Association, she was surprised to be invited to stay at Mustang Ranch, among the women of the brothel, for the duration of her research. She learned that despite the legalization of prostitution in several counties of Nevada, the working girls still faced restrictive local ordinances and work regulations that kept them virtual prisoners inside the brothel compound. Outside, they encountered the same social stigma that has always haunted sex workers. In her compassionate, engaging first book, Albert answers all the questions you might ever have about prostitutes, providing a rich and nuanced depiction of a largely hidden world. --Regina Marler [via]
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Callgirlby Jeannette L. AngellISBN 1579621104 (1-57962-110-4)
Hardcover, Permanent Pr Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callgirl'Book summary:Professor by day, callgirl by night a true storyJenny is left penniless by an ex-boyfriend and, in order to make ends meet, she finds herself juggling two lives - respected college-lecturer by day and $200-an-hour high class callgirl 'Tia' by night.Tia's clients range from the pitiful to the downright disturbing: there's the man obsessed with wearing her underwear, the client who wants her to pretend to be his mother and the punter who gets his kicks from inflicting pain. Tia is paid to fulfil all kinds of desires.Despite her madam's protection, Tia is drawn into a world of increasing danger, trying to dodge undercover cops, resist the temptation of drugs and, most of all, avoid falling in love with the wrong man.As Jenny juggles the twin roles of professor and prostitute, the eventual strain of keeping her life secret from friends and family forces her to re-examine everything - before her two worlds inevitably collide& [via]
Charmedby Carrie MacISBN 1551435780 (1-55143-578-0)
Hardcover, Orca Book Pub
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 1841953237 (1-84195-323-7)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90by Anne M. ButlerISBN 0252014669 (0-252-01466-9)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Dress Lodgerby Sheri HolmanISBN 0345436911 (0-345-43691-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dress Lodger'Book summary:The Dress Lodger, a prostitute's passion for her vulnerable baby and the disgraced doctor who might save him, is engrossing historical fiction. As with all the best fictional history, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale of cholera-struck Sunderland in 1831 is based on fact. "Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student": this epigraph casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humour, adversities and disease of an early 19th-century industrial town.
Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, sex worker by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by the indefatigable, mysterious old woman known only as Eye to guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which she rents herself, explaining that: "dress lodging works on this basic principle: a cheap whore is given a fancy dress as a higher class of prostitute, the higher the station of the clientèle; the higher the station, the higher the price." Gustine's dress beckons a high-class punter pursued by a dubious fallen past in the figure of Dr Henry Chiver, an ambitious young surgeon who has fled Edinburgh to escape the professional scandal attending on his implication in the convictions of infamous pioneer anatomists Burke and Hare for murder and graverobbing. The heart is the favourite organ, "the singular fascination of his life", for Henry Chiver, desperate to re-establish his tarnished reputation through medical discovery. For this, and his paying students restless for induction into the arts of the scalpel, Chiver requires dead bodies for dissection, to the horror of his naïve, philanthropic fiancée Audrey Place. But it is 1831: the Anatomy Act has yet to pass through parliament to enable medics to legally obtain the corpses so critical to their accurate practice, and a suspicious public is terrifying itself with stories of murderous "burkers".
Streetsmart Gustine, "a rented self", hostile pragmatist trapped in unrelenting poverty, is all heart for her nameless little son who wears--literally--his heart on the outside, a rare case of ectopia cordis; just the kind of anatomical anomaly whose study would make the name of the aspirant but stigmatised Henry. Amid the gathering momentum of cholera epidemic, the two strike up a fatal pact: life for Gustine's son in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for Chiver's scientific dissection. With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Holman carves out a richly imaginative adventure as incisive and gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theatre. --Rachel Holmes [via]
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Eleven Minutesby Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0060589280 (0-06-058928-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleven Minutes'Book summary:Paulo Coelho's astonishingly beautiful writing in Eleven Minutes virtually guarantees it the cult status that The Alchemist already enjoys. But what is the Paulo Coelho phenomenon? How can an author who (only a short time ago) was virtually unknown to most readers have taken the world of books by storm--and without the benefit of glitzy advertising? The answer is simple: quality. Such books as The Fifth Mountain andThe Devil and Miss Prym are enough to explain a considerable following for the author, with their atmospheric prose and involving characters.
Eleven Minutes tells the story of young Maria living an innocent life in a Brazilian village and is played out in a measured fashion, but with all the author's brilliant scene-setting (very lush here) fully in place. But then Maria experiences love and suffers great pain. From this point, Coelho has us inexorably in his grip. Maria's disillusionment with love leads her to Geneva where she finally ends up selling her body (Coelho may offer us the beauty of life, but never at the expense of its harshness). Maria's approach to sex is complex--this is no mere revulsion arising from what she is now doing with her life. And then she meets a seductive young painter, who may or may not offer her a new path in life. But does she prefer to continue on the dark sexual odyssey she has embarked on, at the expense of real love?
There are echoes of DH Lawrence in Coelho's exploration of the sacred and spiritual aspects of sex and it's a brave author who tackles a subject that can so easily slip into strained seriousness. That never happens here, and Maria's journey is one that the reader willingly undertakes; the lesson she learns are lessons for the reader. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 1419119222 (1-4191-1922-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill'Book summary:John Cleland's sexy classic -- available now after centuries of banning. Delightful, steamy, and enduring. [via]
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- Fanny Hill: ISBN 158715546X (1-58715-546-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - Fanny Hill: ISBN 1587155478 (1-58715-547-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Fanny Hill: ISBN 1898998604 (1-898998-60-4)
Hardcover, Erotic Print Society - Fanny Hill: ISBN 1853266256 (1-85326-625-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Fanny Hill: ISBN 0881846023 (0-88184-602-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub - Fanny Hill: ISBN 0283998741 (0-283-99874-1)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson - Fanny Hill: ISBN 0913568260 (0-913568-26-0)
Hardcover, Avant-Garde Media - Fanny Hill: ISBN 8483107597 (84-8310-759-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano - Fanny Hill: ISBN 1419119222 (1-4191-1922-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- Fanny Hill: ISBN 158715546X (1-58715-546-X)
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Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Womenby J. ClelandISBN 1840224177 (1-84022-417-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Women'Book summary:Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly coloured by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal. [via]
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Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 1596540427 (1-59654-042-7)
Softcover, Disruptive Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, commonly known as fanny hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since john cleland completed it in 1749. The bishop of london called the work 'an open insult upon religion and good manners' and james boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recently as a unique combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosophical concept of sexuality borrowed from french libertine novels. Modern readers will appreciate it not only as an important contribution to revolutionary thought in the age of enlightenment, but also as a thoroughly entertaining and important work of erotic fiction, deserving of a place in the history of the english novel beside richardson, fielding and smollett [via]
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- Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: ISBN 0140432493 (0-14-043249-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: ISBN 0375758089 (0-375-75808-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Fanny Hill : Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: ISBN 0451526287 (0-451-52628-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: ISBN 1596540427 (1-59654-042-7)
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- Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure: ISBN 0140432493 (0-14-043249-3)
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Golden/GeishaISBN 2253117951 (2-253-11795-1)
Hardcover, Librairie Generale Francaise, LGF
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A History of Prostitutionby George Ryley ScottISBN 0788154052 (0-7881-5405-2)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Idea of Prostitutionby Sheila JeffreysISBN 1875559655 (1-875559-65-5)
Softcover, Spinifex Pr
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In My Skin: A Memoirby Kate HoldenISBN 1559708301 (1-55970-830-1)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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In the Company of the Courtesanby Sarah DunantISBN 1400063817 (1-4000-6381-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel'Book summary:1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks down their doors. Though almost as damaged as their beloved city, Fiammetta Bianchini and Bucino Teodoldi - a fabulous courtesan and her dwarf companion - are already planning their future. They head for the shimmering beauty of Venice, a honey pot of wealth and trade where they start to rebuild their business. As a partnership they are invincible: Bucino, clever with a sharp eye and a wicked tongue and Fiammetta, beautiful and shrewd, trained from birth to charm, entertain and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Venice, however, is a city which holds its own temptations. From the admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his Sultan's court, to the searing passion of a young lover who wants more than his allotted nights. But the greatest challenge comes from a young blind woman, a purveyor of health and beauty, who insinuates her way into their lives with devastating consequences for them all. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Large Print - In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel: ISBN 1400063817 (1-4000-6381-7)
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John Cleland's Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0583116833 (0-583-11683-3)
Hardcover, Mayflower
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John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0440055555 (0-440-05555-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:She was a homeless orphan of 15, resolved to make her fortune in London. Abandoned by her chaperone, destitute and friendless, the inexperienced country maid was taken in by Madam Brown. And thus began, as she has told us, "...the loose part of my life, wrote with the same liberty that I led it." [via]
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Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Laborby W. Chapkis, Jill Posener, Annie Sprinkle, Gon BuurmanISBN 0415912881 (0-415-91288-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor'Book summary:Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others. [via]
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Love For Sale: A World History Of Prostitutionby Nils Johan Ringdal, Richard DalyISBN 0802141846 (0-8021-4184-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love For Sale: A World History Of Prostitution'Book summary:From the Whore of Babylon to Pretty Woman, the exchange of sex for money is often cited as the oldest profession. Now, eminent historian Nils Johan Ringdal delivers a magisterial, extremely readable world history of this most malignedand most persistentform of human commerce. Beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and ancient cultures from Greece to India and beyond, Love for Sale takes the reader on a tour through the entire recorded history of prostitution up to the modern red-light district. It shows how different societies have dealt with prostitutes: ancient Greece, Rome, and India incorporated them into several social echelons, including the priestess class; their close relations with artists in 19th-century Europe made them muses to the modern sensibility; and the Victorians campaigned against them. Love for Sale closes with Sydney Biddle Barrows, the rise of the sex-workers' rights movement and contemporary "sex-positive" feminism, and a realistic look at the true risks and rewards of prostitution in the present day.[via]More editions of Love For Sale: A World History Of Prostitution:
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Maggieby Stephen Crane, Robert TineISBN 1593082487 (1-59308-248-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D.,
Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His stories of evolving American society are unflinchingly realistic and shrewdly ironic. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets tells of Maggies seduction and downfall into prostitution amid the harsh world of the Bronx, where life is a battlefield.
The other tales offer a diversity of insights into social hypocrisy, child psychology, and the wild violence of the frontiersmen. Such violence is ruthlessly depicted in The Blue Hotel. This collection of stories is replete with lively dialogue, ominous atmospheres, dry humour and graphic incidents.
Praised by Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Cranes memorable tales have become enduringly influential.
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrowsby Sydney B. Barrows, William NovakISBN 0804101507 (0-8041-0150-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows'Book summary:With flair, humor, and style, Sydney Biddle Barrows tells the whole intriguing story of how she merged business and sex to create Cachet--the escort service of choice among rich, powerful, and prominent men. Adapting business management methods of the 1980s to the world's oldest profession, in this frank, surprising, and insightful, book, Ms. Barrows emerges as a woman who seized a chance and made the most of it. [via]
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 1400096898 (1-4000-9689-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before World War II. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent--one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life.
From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
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- Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0307275167 (0-307-27516-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0679781587 (0-679-78158-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0739326872 (0-7393-2687-2)
Softcover, Random House Large Print - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0375400117 (0-375-40011-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0739326228 (0-7393-2622-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 037570440X (0-375-70440-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0606222049 (0-606-22204-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0783801459 (0-7838-0145-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 1400096898 (1-4000-9689-8)
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- Memoirs of a Geisha: ISBN 0307275167 (0-307-27516-7)
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Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Soloby John WilliamsISBN 1423412206 (1-4234-1220-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Solo'Book summary:(Piano Solo Songbook). Six instrumental themes by John Williams from this Oscar-winning film, arranged for piano solo. Includes: As the Water * Becoming a Geisha * The Chairman's Waltz * Going to School * Sayuri's Theme * Sayuri's Theme and End Credits. [via]
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John ClelandISBN 0192835653 (0-19-283565-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'Book summary:Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. [via]
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Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John ClelandISBN 0451524187 (0-451-52418-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 9500725878 (950-07-2587-8)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores'Book summary:El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor.
Así, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de manas. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrara el verdadero amor.
Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexión que celebra las alegrías del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel García Márquez.
In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.
An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like hes still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love.
This new novel, written in Gabriel García Márquezs incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love. [via]More editions of Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores:
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275302 (0-307-27530-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:En Memorias de una geisha, Arthur Golden abre una ventana al misterioso mundo del erotismo en Japón y describe con fidelidad la delicada fortaleza de la cultura de las geishas de Kioto a lo largo del siglo. [via]
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Mysterious Skinby Scott HeimISBN 0060841699 (0-06-084169-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nanaby Emile ZolaISBN 1419136550 (1-4191-3655-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nana'Book summary:[via]Nana, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:One of the founders of literary naturalism, Émile Zola thought of his novels as a form of scientific research into the effects of heredity and environment. He created characters, gave them richly detailed histories, and placed them in carefully observed, precisely described environments, and his readers watch as they wriggle and thrash toward their inevitable destinies.
In Nana, the characters are a prostitute, who rises from the streets to become what Zola calls a high-class cocotte, and the menand womenwhom she loves, betrays, and destroys. Among the novels many ironies is the mutual envy felt by Nana and those around her. She yearns for their material possessions, while they admire her apparent independence and sexual self-confidence. And despite the chaos Nana causes, Zola imagines her as being essentially good-natured, a stupid, vain but beautiful creature who cant help drawing people into her web.
Not surprisingly, Nanas portrait of a decadent world in which a prostitute amasses great wealth and power provoked protests from polite society, and it became one of Zolas most controversial works. Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts and coeditor, with Melissa Holbrook Pierson, of O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors.More editions of Nana:
- Nana: ISBN 1593082924 (1-59308-292-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Nana: ISBN 1582871841 (1-58287-184-1)
Hardcover, North Books - Nana: ISBN 0140442634 (0-14-044263-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Nana: ISBN 0192836706 (0-19-283670-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Nana: ISBN 0971336350 (0-9713363-5-0)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl - Nana: ISBN 0140061282 (0-14-006128-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Nana: ISBN 0192826743 (0-19-282674-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Nana: ISBN 0553214403 (0-553-21440-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Nana: ISBN 0460041444 (0-460-04144-4)
Hardcover - Nana: ISBN 2070369560 (2-07-036956-0)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books - Nana: ISBN 8437607507 (84-376-0750-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Nana: ISBN 1419136550 (1-4191-3655-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Once Minutos / Eleven Minutesby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0060591838 (0-06-059183-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once Minutos / Eleven Minutes'Book summary:Una novela cautivadora y audaz del autor de El Alquimista, bestseller con m&aaucute;s de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. En este nuevo relato, el novelista explora con gran sensibilidad la naturaleza sagrada del sexo y del amor y nos invita a enfrentar nuestros propios prejuicios y demonios.
Once Minutos relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor le dejan con el corazón destrozado. A su tierna edad, se convence de que jamás hallará el amor verdadero; al contrario, considera que "El amor es algo horrible que produce sufrimiento." Un encuentro casual en Río la lleva a Ginebra, donde sueña con conseguir fama y fortuna. Sin embargo, termina trabajando de prostituta.
En Ginebra, la opinión desesperanzada que María tiene del amor, se pone a prueba al conocer a un apuesto joven pintor. En esta odisea de descubrimiento personal, María debe elegir entre recorrer el camino de la oscuridad, el del sexo por el sexo mismo, o arriesgarlo todo para descubrir su propia "luz interior" y las posibilidad del sexo sagrado, es decir, del sexo dentro del contexto del amor.
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Prostitution and Victorian Societyby Judith R. WalkowitzISBN 0521270642 (0-521-27064-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the Stateby Judith R. WalkowitzISBN 0521223342 (0-521-22334-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State'Book summary:The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this study of alliances between prostitutes and feminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police. Prostitution and Victorian Society makes a major contribution to women's history, working-class history, and the social history of medicine and politics. It demonstrates how feminists and others mobilized over sexual questions, how public discourse on prostitution redefined sexuality in the late nineteenth century, and how the state helped to recast definitions of social deviance. [via]
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Redeeming Loveby Francine RiversISBN 1590525132 (1-59052-513-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redeeming Love'Book summary:In this splendid retelling of the biblical story of Hosea, bestselling author Francine Rivers pens a heartbreaking romance between a prostitute and the upright and kind farmer who marries her; the story also functions as a reminder of God's unconditional love for his people. Redeeming Love opens with the Gold Rush of 1850 and its rough-and-tumble atmosphere of greed and desire. Angel, who was sold into prostitution as a child, has learned to distrust all men, who see her only as a way to satisfy their lust. When the virtuous and spiritual-minded Michael Hosea is told by God to marry this "soiled dove," he obeys, despite his misgivings. As Angel learns to love him, she begins to hope again but is soon overwhelmed by fear and returns to her old life. Rivers shines in her ability to weave together spiritual themes and sexual tension in a well-told story, a talent that has propelled her into the spotlight as one of the most popular novelists in the genre of Christian fiction. This is one of her best. --Cindy Crosby [via]
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industryby Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla AlexanderISBN 1573440426 (1-57344-042-6)
Softcover, Cleis Pr
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Slammerkinby Emma DonoghueISBN 1860498280 (1-86049-828-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slammerkin'Book summary:Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster.[via]
Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, Slammerkin is historical fiction for all readers. -
Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early Westby Ann SeagravesISBN 096190884X (0-9619088-4-X)
Softcover, Wesanne Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West'Book summary:Softcover book is an history of prostitution in the early American West. Illustrated. [via]
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Soldby Patricia McCormickISBN 0786851716 (0-7868-5171-6)
Hardcover, Hyperion
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Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light Districtby Al RoseISBN 0817344039 (0-8173-4403-9)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Valenciaby Michelle TeaISBN 1580050352 (1-58005-035-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valencia'Book summary:You don't have to be part of the emerging postpunk subculture of queer urban girls to relish this smooth ride of a novel, like Kathy Acker on Prozac on a sunny day, in which many exciting things happen without affecting much of anything, and one of the most profound moments is a mild, drug-induced insight into the meaninglessness of life. Michelle, the main character, is a person for whom blue hair is as big a style change as blue pants. She lurches between women, more in love with the idea of love than with Iris or Willa or Gwynne or Petra. Her work experiences are equally brief, although she can't bring herself to actually quit jobs. She just stops showing up. "Are you going to work?" her current lover asks one morning.
No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work. Willa didn't work. I mean, she did, but it's a stretch to call it work. She bartended at a dyke bar a few nights a week, drank free beer, and bummed all her cigarettes.... All week she was free, writing angsty brilliant poems, drawing comic books, painting gigantic painful pictures, you know, living. I wanted to live.
Michelle Tea's characters are a peculiar fin-de-siècle blend of jaded idealists and thoughtful egotists: sex workers, poets, and mad hatters who end up making breakfast for roomfuls of stoned strangers. The occasional flash of clarity doesn't alter the basically anarchic nature of Tea's meandering narrative, so much like the tales of an incidental figure from Valencia, a loud redhead named Iggy who told stories "so incredible you wondered if they were true but ultimately didn't care because you were so enraptured by her grand gestures and re-enactments." --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Valencia:
Whores in History: Prositution in Western Societyby Nickie RobertsISBN 0586200290 (0-586-20029-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristesby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 8439711654 (84-397-1165-4)
Hardcover, Mondadori
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Not AvailableISBN 9681340329 (968-13-4032-9)
Softcover, Editorial Diana S.A. De C.V.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores'Book summary:El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor.
Así, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de manas. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrara el verdadero amor.
Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexión que celebra las alegrías del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel García Márquez.
In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.
An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like hes still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love.
This new novel, written in Gabriel García Márquezs incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love. [via]More editions of Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores:
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Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden, Pilar VazquezISBN 0307275310 (0-307-27531-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias De Una Geisha / Memoirs of a Geisha'Book summary:Poco antes de su muerte, Sayuri, una anciana japonesa afincada en Nueva York, cuenta la historia de su vida a un joven amigo americano. El poder de seducción de la voz narrativa de esta geisha legendaria transporta al lector a un Japón de entre guerras, lleno todavía de ecos feudales, y a una de las tradiciones japonesas que más curiosidad inspiran en el mundo occidental: la de la geisha, una peculiar práctica cultural a la que están ligadas artes tales como la seducción, la danza, la pintura o la clásica ceremonia del té. [via]
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Onze Minutosby Paulo CoelhoISBN 8532515363 (85-325-1536-3)
Hardcover, Rocco
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Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 225314794X (2-253-14794-X)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geisha'Book summary:574pages. poche. broché. A neuf ans, dans le Japon d'avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Sayuri est vendue par son père, un modeste pêcheur, à une maison de plaisir de Kyoto. Dotée d'extraordinaires yeux bleus, la petite fille comprend vite qu'il faut mettre à profit la chance qui est la sienne. Elle se plie avec docilité à l'initiation difficile qui en fera une vraie geisha. Art de la toilette et de la coiffure, rituel du thé, science du chant, de la danse et de l'amour: Sayuri va peu à peu se hisser au rang des geishas les plus convoitées de la ville. Les riches, les puissants se disputeront ses faveurs. Elle triomphera des pièges que lui tend la haine d'une rivale. Elle rencontrera finalement l'amour. Ecrit sous la forme de mémoires, ce récit a la véracité d'un exceptionnel document et le souffle d'un grand roman. Il nous entraîne au coeur d'un univers exotique où se mêlent érotisme et perversité, cruauté et raffinement, séduction et mystère. [via]
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Die Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 3442726328 (3-442-72632-8)
Softcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Geisha'Book summary:Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wird Chiyo in ein Geisha-Haus verkauft. Nachleidvollen Lehrjahren wird sie die begehrteste und mächtigste von allenGeishas. Doch ihr Traum vom privaten Glück erfüllt sich erst nach dem Untergangder alten Geisha-Kultur. [via]
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