[PDF] The Young Ladys Oracle eBook

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451686862

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time.

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2018-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780656345656

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Excerpt from The Young Lady's Oracle: A Fireside Amusement The mode of consulting the Oracle is extremely simple. The Card, which will be found at the end of the volume, having been cut into separate pieces, each containing a single number (nos. 3 to the pieces are to be deposited in a reti cule or other convenient receptacle, so that the drawer may choose at random without being able to see the number chosen. The person who wishes to consult the Oracle having selected the question? (pp. Vii - xii) to which she wishes a reply, then withdraws one of the cards from the reticule, which gives the answer to her ques tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1596910496

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Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.

Author : Cornelius Agrippa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fortune-telling
ISBN : 9780747579052

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Shall I soon be courted? Am I still thought a child? Shall I cease to be a virgin before I marry? Which self-respecting young lady hasn't at one time or another fretted over these most perplexing of questions? One has only to put to The Ladies' Oracle these (and a multitude of other) quandaries, and the book will lay forth its wisdom. With his collected knowledge of advanced mathematics and the feminine kind, Cornelius Agrippa has endeavoured to create a veritable bible for every aspiring lady. This charming compendium of solutions is an absolute necessity for anyone seeking guidance in an increasingly confusing world.

Author : Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402270593

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New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! "An outstanding historical novel of 17th–century France ... based on a real–life scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons, this tale is riveting from start to finish."—Library Journal Her ability to see the future may prevent her from living in the present... For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You'll believe her, because you know she's more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of her hand. But Madame de Morville hides more behind her black robes than you know. Her real age, the mother and uncle who left her for dead, the inner workings of the most secret society of Parisian witches: none of these truths would help her outwit the rich who so desperately want the promise of the future. After all, it's her own future she must control , no matter how much it is painted with uncertainty and clouded by vengeance. More Praise for The Oracle Glass: "Absorbing and arresting."—New York Times "Fascinating and factual."—Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun."— Kirkus Reviews "Take a full cup of wit, two teaspoons of brimstone, and a dash of poison, and you have Judith Merkle Riley's mordant, compelling tale of an ambitious young woman who disguises herself as an ancient prophetess in order to gain entry into the dangerous, scheming glamour of the Sun King's court. Based on scandalous true events, The Oracle Glass brims with our human foibles, passions, and eccentricities; it's a classic of the genre and unlike any historical novel you have ever read."—C. W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici