Aristocrats

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DescriptionRome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousa...

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DescriptionFew venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zof...

DescriptionAll roads lead to Rome, as the famous saying goes. Rome was a melting pot of peoples from across the Mediterranean and beyond, each brin...

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DescriptionThis anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection in...

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A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral ...

Reducere. Actiunea romanului Contesa de Charny se deruleaza in timpul revolutiei franceze atat la Paris cat si in micile asezari Haramont si Pisseleu.Familia...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside ...

Description"Full of zest and high spirits." -- The Christian Science MonitorThis witty, elegant novel of ideas unfolds on the imaginary Mediterrane...

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This highly charged fable set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the late 1960s, centers on the guests of the Pension Miramar as they compete for the attenti...

DescriptionLegacies in Steel is focused on historical edged weapons of the German military from 1800 to 1990. Nearly 100 examples have been careful...

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terr...

DescriptionA deft interweaving of architectural and social history For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country e...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

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A beautifully illustrated journey through the history of travel--and traveling in style--from one of the world's preeminent fashion brands The mid-...

Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto fath...

Reducere. Discover the full and fascinating story of Prince Philip--one of the most important, influential, and elusive royals--in this colorful and revelato...

Description'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassan...

Discover the full and fascinating story of Prince Philip--one of the most important, elusive, and intriguing royals--in "the first major biography ...

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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development...

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The story of Mrs. Gordon Baillie is stranger than anything to be met with in the field of fiction.Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as...

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Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...

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Reducere. Following the events of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious figure continues his efforts to elude captors, while saving French aristocrats from m...

DescriptionIn the "thrilling conclusion"* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up ag...

Reducere. Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecd...

In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kate QuinnThe first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Ali...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The...

Reducere. December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militar...

Wendy Goodman has discovered and published stories on an astonishing array of private houses, notable for their character, personality, and flair, ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the time the Rev...

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Lord Lansdowne (1845-1927) was one of the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by virtue of his birth--and he used it to establish himself as...

Reducere. A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter--just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part I...

Reducere. When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful -- if rebellious -- Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentio...

DescriptionFor Cyrus Massoudi, a young Britishborn Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown...

Reducere. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrum...

Sought after by European aristocrats and a favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte, the sweet wines of Constantia in the Cape Colony were considered to be a...

From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton fami...

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From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton fami...

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Reducere. Where is the Ark of the Covenant? One of the Bible's most sacred and powerful objects has not been seen for over 2, 500 years. The missing Ark has ...

Reducere. As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the...

Reducere. Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary is a scathingly honest and breathless autobiographical memoir by Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the British Jet-Set "...

A world of enchanted injustice needs a disenchanting woman in an all-new fantasy series by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper ...

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Reducere. It's 1893, and itinerant cowboy brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are down to their last pennies. So when jobs come open at a ranch run by a...