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Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cel
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Roberts' vivid, challenging, and impressively researched defense of the unrepentant whore, whom she regards as the most maligned woman in history, tells the sto
Language: en
Pages: 315
Pages: 315
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
From streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.