Télécharger le livre :  After The Victorians
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When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Our Times
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When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world.In Our Times, A.N. Wilson takes the...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Victorians
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People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Elizabethans
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England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block.But it was also an...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Betjeman
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John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Jealous Ghost
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There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis.There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-27

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Télécharger le livre :  My Name Is Legion
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The Daily Legion is a tabloid that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. However, its financial survival depends on the support of a brutal African government. Recklessly defending this corrupt dictatorship, the newspaper faces off against Father Vivyan...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Winnie And Wolf
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Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, brought up in an...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-06-08

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