Princess Of Cleves

✍ Madame Lafayette 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Penguin UK 🌐 English ⚖ 124 KB

"Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning-point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared--anonymously--in 1678 in the heyday of French classicism, it aroused fierce contr

The Princesse De Cleves

✍ Madame Lafayette 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Penguin UK 🌐 English ⚖ 175 KB

Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Clèves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, noble Mme de Clèves, who is married to a loyal and faithful man, and the Duc de Nemours, a handsome man most female courtiers find irresistible. Warned by h

My Lady of Cleves: Anne of Cleves

✍ Barnes, Margaret Campbell 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Sourcebooks, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 204 KB

**The Absorbing Story of Henry VIII's Fourth Queen, Her Secret Love, Her Power-Hungry Husband, and the Country That Ruled Them All** "At long last Anne of Cleves gets her day as a noble and highminded heroine in the lists of historical fiction!" *- CHICAGO TRIBUNE* My Lady of Cleves reveals the

Anne of Cleves

✍ Watkins, Sarah-Beth 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 John Hunt Publishing 🌐 en-US ⚖ 377 KB 👁 1 views

Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked her not and sought an immediate divorce. After

Clèves

✍ Darrieussecq, Marie 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 POL 🌐 French ⚖ 109 KB

Clèves raconte l’éveil à la vie amoureuse et sexuelle d’une petite fille, en province, il y a une trentaine d’années environ... Les trois parties du livre respectivement intitulées « Les avoir » (les règles), « Le faire » (l’amour), « Le refaire » (l’amour, encore, bien sûr : une seule fois ne suffi

Clèves

✍ Darrieussecq, Marie 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 POL Editeur 🌐 French ⚖ 109 KB

Clèves raconte l’éveil à la vie amoureuse et sexuelle d’une petite fille, en province, il y a une trentaine d’années environ... Les trois parties du livre respectivement intitulées « Les avoir » (les règles), « Le faire » (l’amour), « Le refaire » (l’amour, encore, bien sûr : une seule fois ne suffi