Tag: Scandalous

Free Download David Cressy, "Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England"
English | 2010 | pages: 391 | ISBN: 0199564809, 0199606099 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Dangerous Talk examines the "lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding" speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and characters previously unknown to history, David Cressy explores the contested zones where private words had public consequence. Though "words were but wind," as the proverb had it, malicious tongues caused social damage, seditious words challenged political authority, and treasonous speech imperiled the crown.

Free Download Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann by Gill Paul
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 0063245159 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 1.9 MB
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.

Free Download Joni Rendon, "Writers Between the Covers: The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads"
English | 2013 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0452298466 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
What happened off the page was often a lot spicier than what was written on it…

Free Download By Two and Two: The Scandalous Story of Twin Sisters Accused of a Shocking Crime of Passion (Audiobook)
English | February 20, 2024 | ASIN: B0CTJ47DJW | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 35m | 301 MB
Author: Jim Schutze | Narrator: Tom Parks
In "a solid account of what appears to be a shocking injustice" an award-winning journalist uncovers the bias that led to a woman’s conviction for murder (The New York Times).

Free Download Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News By Brian Zahnd
2017 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1601429525 | EPUB | 5 MB
God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards’s wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father’s love-revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ-for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zanhd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

Free Download Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story by Alexandra Joel
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0143780468 | 328 Pages | EPUB | 2.3 MB
Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls.

Free Download A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler, John Lescault, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08T6JZT5T | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 9 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 127 Mb
The story of one of the most important – and incendiary – books in Western history.
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published – "godless", "full of abominations", "a book forged in hell…by the devil himself". Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza’s book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking.
In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.