Herself Surprised
By Joyce Cary
"The story of Sara’s losing struggle with morality in the face of her insistent lovers – to whom Sara never learned to say no – has been called a modern classic."
French Model
By Cecil Barr
"THAT precious Daffodil. When she consented to pose – quite nude – for a picture, she never dreamed it would soon make her delectable charms the best known in town. Every free-and-easy young artist, not to mention assorted playboys and millionaires, promptly became admirers of her extraordinary attractions. Or at least the portrait of them. For though they stormed her defenses, Daffodil remained inviolate. Or did she? It was whispered for one thing, that she was carrying a torch for the godlike Brian – he who had painted the picture in the first place. Admitting that she had posed in the altogether partly to help – but chiefly to tempt him – Daffodil alleged that that if matters depended on Brian she would be condemned to chastity all her life. So, trying to forget the fellow, she hurled herself from one gay escapade to another. What happened in the end scandalized everybody – even mischievous Daffodil."
The Art Studio Murders
By Edward S. Aarons
"Someone was in the apartment – For a desperate moment, she prayed it was Hank. Then she heard the footsteps, methodical and direct – the footsteps of the man who had followed her in the dark street. He came straight for the kitchen, as if he knew she was cowering there. She screamed. The sound ripped from her throat in a frenzy of terror, shattering the night’s silence. But she knew it wouldn’t stop him. Not after what she had seen him do…"
Rogue Wind
By Ugo Moretti
"Stark and brutal. Son of a streetwalker, cynical Vento Caldo learned how to gratify every passion in the corrupt underworld of postwar Rome. Only the beautiful and tempestuous Claudia stayed beyond his reach – but not for long. Yet even she could not tame this unscrupulous rogue, whose wild instincts outraged every moral law – and every woman he met."
The Gold of Their Bodies
By Charles Gorham
“Painter, Lover, Adventurer: A spellbinding novel about the famous French artist Gaughin.” "Here is a lusty, exciting novel based on the life of the great French artist, Paul Gaughin – a bold, vital man who dared to live and love as he chose, a man who left his beautiful wife, a successful business career and the glamor of Paris to paint in poverty amidst the abandon and savagery of the gold-skinned women of the South Seas."
Artist's Woman
By Louis Richard
"Sheila Farrell’s love for art was the natural result of an education in swank private schools. Her love for men was the equally natural result of a physical aptitude that bore her passionately through several rich husbands and countless poor but grateful lovers. When Sheila met Marc Griffin, virile young painter on the lookout for commissions, her desire for art and arms assumed a personal new meaning that erupted into the most tempestuous affair she had ever known."
The Moon And Sixpence
By W. Somerset Maugham
“He had violent passions… and on occasion desire seized his body… but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession.”
The Moon and Sixpence
By W. Somerset Maugham
“3rd big printing of a world-famous novel of the great artist who broke with morality – fled family and friends for the heat and passion of the South Seas.”
pulp fiction 5 - the artist and his muse
Khan Tiki Mon’s collection of vintage paperbacks with a Tiki, island, South Seas, tropical, or nautical theme.
The Artist and his Muse.