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Forever Amber. [A novel.]

This novel tells the story of orphaned Amber St. Clare who works her way up in 17th century England society by sleeping with selectively more highly affluent and richer men, all while guarding her love for a man she could never have.

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  • "Forever Amber"
  • "Forever Amber"@it
  • "Forever Amber"@he
  • "Muzhʹi︠a︡ i liubovniki"
  • "Kié̂p hò̂ng nhan"
  • "Forever amber"
  • "Kié̂p h`ông nhan"
  • "Yong heng de hu po"
  • "永恒的琥珀"
  • "Forever, Amber"

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  • "Een jonge vrouw die zich in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland op de maatschappelijke ladder omhoog werkt, zet alles op het spel in haar hartstochtelijke liefde voor één man."
  • ""Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits, beauty, and courage to clinb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England--that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. ... But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have."--Cover, Chicago Review press pbk."
  • "This novel tells the story of orphaned Amber St. Clare who works her way up in 17th century England society by sleeping with selectively more highly affluent and richer men, all while guarding her love for a man she could never have."@en
  • ""Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits, beauty, and courage to clinb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England--that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. ... But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have."--Cover."
  • ""Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare uses her wits, beauty, and courage to clinb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England--that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. ... But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, the one man she can never have."--Cover."@en
  • "Forever Amber tells the story of orphaned Amber St. Clare, who makes her way up through the ranks of 17th century English society by sleeping with and/or marrying successively richer and more important men, while keeping her love for the one man she could never have. The novel includes portrayals of Restoration fashion, politics, and public disasters, including the plague and the Great Fire of London. While many reviewers "praised the story for its relevance, comparing Amber's fortitude during the plague and fire to that of the women who held hearth and home together through the blitzes of World War II", others condemned it for its blatant sexual references. Fourteen U.S. states banned the book as pornography. The first was Massachusetts, whose attorney general cited 70 references to sexual intercourse, 39 illegitimate pregnancies, 7 abortions, and "10 descriptions of women undressing in front of men" as reasons for banning the novel. Winsor denied that her book was particularly daring, and said that she had no interest in explicit scenes. "I wrote only two sexy passages," she remarked, "and my publishers took both of them out. They put in ellipsis instead. In those days, you know, you could solve everything with an ellipsis." Despite its banning, Forever Amber was the best-selling US novel of the 1940s. It sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release, and went on to sell over three million copies. Forever Amber was also responsible for popularizing "Amber" as a given name for girls in the 20th century. The book was condemned by the Catholic Church for indecency, which helped to make it popular. One critic went so far as to number each of the passages to which he objected. The film was finally completed after substantial changes to the script were made, toning down some of the book's most objectionable passages in order to appease Catholic media critics."@en
  • "Amber St. Clare is the central figure in this lusty, exciting, authentically detailed novel of Restoration England. Her lovers were legion ... including a highwayman, assorted noblemen, a captain in the Horse Guards, the Duke of Buckingham, and King Charles himself."@en
  • "This novel is set in Restoration England, where Amber St Clare, beautiful and strong willed is left as a girl alone in London, to make her way as best she can. Unable to win what she most desires, she uses her power over men to win worldly ambition, to climb step by step till she attains the position of favourite mistress to Charles II. Parallel with her worldly success runs her passionate and continually interrupted relationship with Bruce Carlton, between them exists a fatal attraction which neither time nor circumstances can alter."
  • "Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England--that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. From whores and highwaymen to courtiers and noblemen, from events such as the Great Plague and the Fire of London to the intimate passions of ordinary--and extraordinary--men and women, Amber experiences it all. But throughout her trials and escapades, she remains, in her heart, true to the one man she really loves, th."@en
  • "Ben shu yi ying guo si tu ya te wang chao de hei an, fu bai wei bei jing, tong guo zhu ren gong hu po zai gan qing, jin qian zhong zhui qiu he zheng zha yi sheng de miao xie, jie lu le wang gong gui zu wen wen mi ya bei hou de zui e."
  • "本书以英国斯图亚特王朝的黑暗, 腐败为背景, 通过主人公虎珀在感情, 金钱中追求和挣扎一生的描写, 揭露了王公贵族温文尔雅背后的罪恶."
  • "Abandoned on the streets of London with no money, and soon to have a child, sixteen-year-old Amber St. Clare must use her wits, beauty, and courage to better her position."@en

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  • "English fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "American fiction"@he
  • "Historické romány"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Společenské romány"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Love novels"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "History"@he
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Milostné romány"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Historical novels"

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  • "Ambrơ : Tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t"
  • "Prekrasnai︠a︡ Ember : Muzhʹi︠a︡ i li︠u︡bovniki"
  • "Ambre : (Forever Ambre)"
  • "Naveki tvoi︠a︡ Ėmber : vpervye bez kupi︠u︡r!"
  • "Amber altid Amber"@da
  • "Por siempre Ambar"@es
  • "Por siempre Ambar"
  • "永恆的琥珀"
  • "琥珀 = Forever amber"
  • "Věčná Ambra"
  • "עלילות אמבר : חייה של נערת אהבים"
  • "Hu po = Forever amber"
  • "Amber Roman"
  • "Amber"@hu
  • "Amber"
  • "Amber"@it
  • "Amber : regény"
  • "Forever Amber : [novel]"
  • "琥珀 = Hupo"
  • "Forever Amber. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Forever Amber. [A novel.]"
  • "Yong heng de hu po"
  • "Kohaku"
  • "永恒的琥魄"
  • "Aina vain Amber"@fi
  • "Hu po"
  • "Fupo"
  • "虎魄"
  • "Ambre (Forever Amber), roman"
  • "Amber [Roman]"
  • "Por siempre ámbar"
  • "Por siempre ámbar"@es
  • "Ambrơ"
  • "Por siempre Ámbar"@es
  • "Por siempre Ámbar"@en
  • "Por siempre Ámbar"
  • "Naveki tvoi︠a︡ Ėmber"
  • "Por siempre ambar"@es
  • "Por siempre ambar"
  • "Ambre (Forever Amber). Roman"
  • "Por siempre ámbar : novela"@es
  • "Hu bo"
  • "Ambre : (Forever Amber), roman"
  • "Amber; Roman"
  • "永恒的虎魄"
  • "Ambre <Forever Amber> : roman"
  • "虎珀"
  • "永恆的虎魄"
  • "Forever amber"@en
  • "Forever amber"
  • "Amber = Forever Amber"
  • "Por siempre Ámbar; novela"
  • "Forever Amber"@sv
  • "AMBRE"
  • "Forever Amber"@en
  • "Forever Amber"
  • "Por siempre ambar : novela"@es
  • "Ambre : roman"
  • "Amber : Roman"
  • "琥珀"
  • "Forever amber. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Hupo = Hupo"
  • "Večná Ambra"
  • "永恒的琥珀"
  • "Ambre (Forever Amber)"
  • "Por siempre Ámbar : novela"@es
  • "Por siempre Ámbar : novela"
  • "Tvoi︠a︡ naveki, Ėmber"
  • "אמבר : רומן"
  • "Ambre"
  • "Amber : roman"

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