In this seventh volume of his Celebrated Crimes, Dumas tells the three tales: of the brutal excesses of Ali Pacha; the tale of the Countess of Saint Geran;and of Murat, whose courage became a legend in the days of the French revolution. Few men have understood...

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Parution : 2022-11-04

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Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story...

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Parution : 2022-10-19

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"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part,...

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The factuality of historical events presented in the narrative during the development phase of the revolutionary state after the lost First World War focuses on the terrorist mischief of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the consequences of his terrorist actions. Murder...

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Parution : 2022-10-18

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In this story the author gives an account of the fierce struggle between Saxon and Dane for supremacy in England, and presents a vivid picture of the misery and ruin to which the country was reduced by the ravages of the sea wolves. The hero, a young Saxon thane, takes...

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From the creator of exciting, historically accurate fiction for young readers comes this tale of loyalty and courage in 11th-century Britain. Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling...

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The Deerslayer, orThe First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo....

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Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian...

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There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we...

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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known asQuo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse (John 13:36). The verse, in the King James Version, reads as...

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A tale of adventure and evangelism, Ballantyne transforms into engaging historical fiction the well-known facts of the Icelandic Saga--stories of exploration and adventure, blessed marriage, alternating turmoil and peace with indigenous people--all sprinkled with...

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There are few difficulties that cannot be surmounted by patience, resolution, and pluck, and great as are the obstacles that nature and the Russian government oppose to an escape from the prisons of Siberia, such evasions have occasionally been successfully carried out,...

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This is a tale of a Sea-rover, or Viking as they're called. In the author's own words, "The present tale is founded chiefly on the information conveyed in that most interesting work by Snorro Sturleson "The Heimskringla, or Chronicles of the Kings of Norway." It is...

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The Countess' Revenge is the 3rd part of the trilogy: A cry to God and the sequel to the novelThe Medic and the Nun.The content of this novel touches the dark side of the thoughts and actions of men and women who are driven by stupidity, greed, hate and revenge who...

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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances followingThe Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form...

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Parution : 2022-09-01

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The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...

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In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific progress, housing, travel, population, business, pleasure, newspapers, utilization of the sea, science, education,...

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Parution : 2022-09-01

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Arun lost his whole world, and the vain thirst for revenge engulfed him in deep despair. But now the Khmer's talking tool learns to appreciate the value of knowledge and friendship, finds love, and fights his cruel masters to start a new life. In the irrepressible...

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Parution : 2022-07-21

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The jungle and the war follow the same rule: A bitter fate devours the family and the whole world of a little boy. Arun is only a slave, a talking tool of the Khmer, and in a lost country nobody cares about his suffering. Despair turns into anger and from anger the...

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Parution : 2022-07-21

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The novel is a work of the imagination and not an excerpt from real history. Much of the atmosphere of the war events around 1806 has been lost. Where there were no credible records, I used my imagination. Nikolas, the monk, shaken by the terrible suffering of the...

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Parution : 2022-06-28

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