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Alovisa und Amena, beide schön, reich, jung und leidenschaftlich, rivalisieren um die Gunst des verführerischen Count D´Elmont, der Frauen nur für Spielzeuge und die Liebe für eine Chimäre müßiger Gehirne hält. Ganz anders geraten ist sein Bruder, der romantische Chevalier Brillian, der sich unsterblich in die gleichfalls schöne, reiche und junge Ansellina verliebt. Die amourösen Schicksale der Brüder verbinden sich, als sich herausstellt, dass Alovisa und Ansellina Schwestern sind. Als sich D´Elmont, inzwischen mit Alovisa verheiratet, in sein neues Mündel, die schöne Melliora, verliebt, bahnt sich eine Katastrophe an.
Mit diesem Ebook liegt erstmals eine deutsche Übersetzung des Erotik-Klassikers «Love in Excess» aus dem Jahr 1720 vor. Die in der Ebook-Fassung angegebenen Kapitelüberschriften stammen vom Übersetzer Horst Tran.

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E-artnow presents to you the anthology of Regency Classics, Eliza Haywood edition. This volume includes her greatest and most controversial novels: Fantomina The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless The Fortunate Foundlings Love in Excess Anti-Pamela Pamela (by Samuel Richardson) Eliza Haywood (1693-1756), was an English writer, actress and publisher. Haywood is a significant figure of the 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English. Eliza Haywood's prolific works, seen as «the fair triumvirate of wit», moved from titillating romance novels to the amatory during the early 1720s to works, focusing more on «women's rights and position». An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the 1980s

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Love in Excess is Eliza Haywood's best known novel. As the story was written by a woman – it is revolutionary in the fact that it shows multilayered characters of real women who have their own sexual agendas. The first part details the competition between Alovisa and Amena, two upper-class young women of disparate wealth, for D'Elmont's attentions. The narrator specifically mentioned the «custom which forbids women to make a declaration of their thoughts.» That women were not permitted to express their affections or choice until a suitor formally proposed marriage is important to both the plot and the theme of the novel.[4] Alovisa writes an unsigned letter to D'Elmont in hopes of eliciting a definite amorous response from him, which inadvertently leads D'Elmont to court Amena. Amena's father refuses to allow his daughter to continue meeting with D'Elmont without a proposal of marriage, which forces the pair to meet via subterfuge. With the help of Anaret, Amena's woman servant, two attempts for the pair to meet are made, the second of which sees Amena and D'Elmont alone in the Tuileries at night.

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"Anti-Pamela; or Feign'd Innocence Detected" by Eliza Haywood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"The Princess of Cleves & The Fruitless Inquiry" by Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Eliza Haywood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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At the time of its publication, a woman's sexual desire was thought to be muted, even nonexistent. Sexual pursuits of any kind were thought to be a man's game, left for a woman to indulge or deny. The novel and its author so obviously challenges the standing ideas of what desire looks like and who it can come from. The main protagonist disguises herself as four different women in her efforts to understand how a man may interact with each individual persona. She is intrigued by the men at the theater and the attention they pay to the prostitutes there, decides to pretend being a prostitute herself. Disguised, she especially enjoys talking with Beauplaisir, whom she has encountered before, though previously constrained by her social status's formalities. He, not recognizing her, and believing her favors to be for sale, asks to meet her. She demurs and puts him off until the next evening.... The story explores a variety of themes, almost none of which come without literary dispute and controversy. The protagonist's game of disguise touches on everything from gender roles, to identity, to sexual desire.

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This novels tells the story of orphan siblings left young in the care of a gentleman. When a brother and sister are older they must leave their guardian and make their own way out in the world, Horatio as a soldier and Louisa as a lady's companion. They travel to various battlefields and courts of Europe. They both experience new surprising customs in other lands, new passions, influences, adventures and love. In this novel the author explores different customs in the changing European countries (especially those that might benefit women) and different political views in other lands at that time.

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"Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze" by Eliza Haywood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Eliza Haywood knew that women were just as tempted as men were to live. In this novel Eliza Haywood explores and writes about the woman's desire, sex, unwanted pregnancy and adultery in 18th century society. Betsy, the protagonist of the story, at first listens with astonishment as her friend describes being seduced and how «being seduced» is fun, but later she herself worries that if she lets her love escort her home, she won't be able to contain her desire for him.

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