Author: Rosalind Laker
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: pavilion, sugar
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0385468261
ISBN-13: 9780385468268
During the French Revolution, Sophie Delcourt and Antoine, a four-year-old French noble, escape to England, where Sophie must guard Antoine’s identity while she builds a confectionery business, joins the British royal circle, and comes to love two very different men. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.
Author: Mingmei Yip
Publisher: Kensington
Keywords: pavilion, blossom, peach
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0758220146
ISBN-13: 9780758220141
Peach Blossom Pavilion is the story about the last Chinese poet-musician courtesan, or Geisha. Chinese geisha culture existed 2500 years ago and reached its fullest development about four hundred years ago. (While the geisha tradition continues in Japan, the remarkable Chinese courtesan culture has passed into history.) Peach Blossom Pavilion is about these elegant, artistic courtesans and the fascinating culture that they represented. The protagonist, Precious Orchid, had many adventures both inside and outside the prostitution house, Peach Blossom pavilion. After her father was executed fo
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Keywords: women, pavilion
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2001
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 155921287X
ISBN-13: 9781559212878
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: links, pavilion
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1419176889
ISBN-13: 9781419176883
The recollection of that afternoon will always be graven on my mind. Northmour and I were persuaded that an attack was imminent; and if it had been in our power to alter in any way the order of events, that power would have been used to precipitate rather than delay the critical moment. The worst was to be anticipated; yet we could conceive no extremity so miserable as the suspense we were now suffering.
Author: Robert van Gulik
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: mystery, dee, judge, pavilion, red
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0226848736
ISBN-13: 9780226848730
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
Author: Xianzu Tang
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
Keywords: series, literature, asian, pavilion, peony
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0887272061
ISBN-13: 9780887272066
This complete translation of one of Chinese literatures classic love stories, in a paperback edition, is perfect for literature lovers and for course adoption. A classic drama from the late Ming period (16th century), the play recounts the story of Bridal Dy who dreams of an idealized lover; but, without hope of ever meeting him, she perishes from unrequited passion. She seems doomed to wander as a ghost, forever seeking her dream-lover, until he at last discovers her self-portrait--he has also dreamed of her, and now his love for her miraculously restores her to life. Besides these memorabl
Author: Xianzu Tang
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: second, ting, mudan, pavilion, peony
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0253215277
ISBN-13: 9780253215277
One of the world’s greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humor of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists.
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