Venus in India DESIGN / Essays

Venus in India DESIGN / EssaysVenus in India (1889) is an erotic novel by Charles Devereaux. Published pseudonymously, the novel is styled as the autobiography of its fictional author, a young British Cavalry officer whose deployment in India is filled with romantic escapades. The war in Afghanistan appeared to be coming to a close when I received sudden orders to proceed, at once, from England to join the First Battalion of my regiment, which was then serving there. I had just

the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks

Van Vechten’s novel has been recognized as an important document of the Jazz Age

Sachedina compares the Judeo-Christian conception of Messiah and the Shi'ite conception of Mahdi and discusses the developing relationship between the Shi'ite Muslims and political regimes

and their working principles

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ranges from early letters written while he was still at school

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She also sets out to rectify the lack of critical attention to marginal sexual representations by examining the feminist

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(1924) to Harpo Marx's lip-sync turn with a phonograph in Monkey Business (1931) to Jerry Lewis's film-on-film performance in The Errand Boy (1961)

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interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published