Marlene Prise ha ventun anni e un passato difficile che vuole lasciarsi alle spalle. Frequenta il terzo anno alla Berkeley University e vive protetta dai sei adorati fratelli maggiori, che le hanno imposto una sola regola: stare alla larga da Travis Harris. Lui è tutto ciò che la ragazza dovrebbe evitare: arrogante e misterioso, motociclista spericolato e pugile implacabile, non conosce limiti né in pista né sul ring. Dietro quel fascino da cattivo ragazzo, nasconde un bagaglio di segreti e tenebre che lo rendono tanto irresistibile quanto inaccessibile. Nonostante tutto, le loro strade continuano a incrociarsi, Marlene non riesce a evitare Travis, e lo stesso vale per lui. Entrambi lottano ogni giorno contro i fantasmi del passato e le difficoltà del presente. Sono due anime affini, segnate dalle stesse cicatrici, che non riescono a scappare dal proprio destino. Ma quando un'ombra nella vita di Travis minaccia non solo lui, ma anche Marlene e le persone che ama, i due dovranno affrontare gli scheletri nell'armadio, vecchi nemici e un futuro che si prospetta sempre più complicato...

For many illusions it is easy to find owners—people who proudly declare their belief in things such as life after death, human reason, or the self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions, too, for example, in art: trompe l'oeil painting pleases its observers with "anonymous illusions"—illusions where it is not entirely clear who should be deceived.

Anonymous illusions offer a universal pleasure principle within culture. They are present in games, sports, design, eroticism, manners, charm, beauty, and so on. However, it seems that this pleasure principle is increasingly misinterpreted. The proud proprietors of certain illusions are no longer capable of recognizing that they also follow anonymous illusions. As a consequence, they mistake happy, polite others for naïve idiots or "savages"—the possessors of stupid illusions whose happiness is an obscene intrusion into the lives of more rational creatures.

The misrecognition of anonymous illusions thus becomes a crucial ideological bedrock for contemporary neoliberal policy. Hatred of the other's happiness leads to the destruction of the public sphere and to a state that, rather than fostering and stimulating its citizens' capacities, interpellates them as victims and limits itself to providing "protective" or repressive measures directed against them.

Jane Eyre has lived a sheltered, callous life. Orphaned at a young age and despised by her remaining family, she is shipped off to Lowood School and can only dream of tenderness and affection. Upon accepting a governess position at Thornfield Hall, a world of passion, desire, and sex explodes before her naive eyes in the form of the brooding, dashing master of the house: Mr. Rochester. After playful attempts to evade Mr. Rochester's advances, Jane finds herself succumbing to his savage, brutal lust and losing herself in the intense heat of her yearning. Jane believes that beneath Mr. Rochester's dark, handsome, and sometimes brutal exterior there must be a heart, and she is desperate to find love in his hungry caresses. But then, she discovers something in the attic . . . and her world is turned upside down forever.

In this cleverly retold classic, sex collides with corsets in a burst of erotic, mash-up fiction, bringing the searing heat of Fifty Shades of Grey to the dark secrets of one of literature's finest novels, Jane Eyre.

The hero of Charlotte Bront�'s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zora�de Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bront�'s last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.

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