Empress of the Splendid Season, Paperback - Oscar Hijuelos

Reducere. Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosper...

Reducere. He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever. In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair...

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Twain si Stanley - Oscar Hijuelos

Reducere. When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation, winning rave reviews and the...

O lucrare fermecatoare de fictiune inspirata de prietenia reala, pe durata a 37 de ani, dintre doua figuri marcante ale sfarsitului secolului al XI...

Publisher: Strident Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kirkland CicconeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Castlecrankie ChroniclesPublication date: 2014Dime...

Reducere. Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a po...

In this touching saga a young woman from the slums of 1930s Ireland sets out for Liverpool - and dreams of a life on the ocean waves working on the...

Reducere. Pasari de ceata - pentru-o mana de orez, din somnul cui vin? Kiri no tori - for a handful of rice grains from whose dream they come? Editie bilingv...

Reducere. This memoir by empress Farah Pahlavi looks back on her reign over an Iran so modern it is unrecognizable today--written just a few years before the...

Reducere. This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The...

Reducere. PREPARE to enter a rich allegory of the Christian life in the style of Pilgrim's Progress. Travel to varied places of danger, beauty, battle, and r...

Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary str...

Reducere. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the...

The Empress is a dazzling reimagining of the courtship between one ofhistory's most iconic and beloved couples: Sisi and Franz of Austria.Publisher...

Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Reducere. Crown Princess Ioanna of Xytae has kept her truthsayer blessing a secret for twenty years. In any other nation, her powerful magic would be cause f...

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

Reducere. With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly...

A magical house. A secret past. And an awful decision. Will she claim her destiny... or save her sister?Twelve-year-old Chia is blind and toils in ...

Bestselling author Amy Clipston transports readers to a picturesque lakeside town in this heartwarming contemporary romance.Brianna is the youngest...

Reducere. When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits, and dreamers emigrated in drov...

Reducere. Empress Alexandra Romanov - the last empress of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and now a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church - chose Countess S...

Less than a decade after Queen Elizabeth I, a Muslim woman ruled an empire more than twenty- five times the size of Elizabethan England and vastly ...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy st...

Reducere. Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into ...

Reducere. These selections from the sermons and writings of Archbishop Oscar Romero share the message of a great holy prophet of modern times. Three short ye...

Reducere. The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegr...

A wide-ranging guide to cycling, covering everything from frame design and technical specifications to bikes in books and film. Full of practical i...

Reducere. Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie"Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquessof Queen...

Reducere. Explore everything awesome about sea creatures in a fun, accessible, and laugh-out-loud formatFind out awesome facts about all sorts of animals fro...

About the AuthorKenneth Atkinson is a professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. The author of several books, he is re...

Acknowledged as Wilde's most perfect comedy, brilliant and subversive, The Importance of Being Earnest has even been considered to anticipate the ‘...

The publication in 1890 of Wilde's only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray's double life in elegant high socie...

Reducere. An irresistible inside look at one of the world's great dance companies, Winter Season is also a sensitive, intimate, and almost painfully honest a...

A practical, straightforward guide to help anyone struggling with the grief of losing a life partner.

Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries...