How to be a Victorian

So you want to be a Victorian? From dirty streets and factories, to watching Punch and Judy shows and riding the stagecoach - find out the real fac...

David's childhood is a happy one, but after his mother's marriage to cruel Mr Murdstone, his life changes for the worse. David is sent to London to...

Reducere. It's tough to be a preacher's kid, and for Leo Stanhope it may be harder than for most. He was born Charlotte, and in the Reverend Pritchard's home...

Reducere. What do you love most about Christmas? Is it the trees? The lights? The glittering baubles? The cards? The carols? Do you love revisiting the story...

The New York Times bestselling, "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating" (Jenny Lawson) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. Have ...

An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. This book will be set out as a how-to guide of advice ...

DescriptionLate Victorian aesthetes were dedicated to the belief that an artwork's value derived solely from its beauty, rather than any moral or u...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the author of the "hysterically funny and unsettlingly fascinating"* New York Times bestseller Unmentionable, a hilarious illustrat...

The overlooked story of how ordinary women and their husbands managed financially in the Victorian era - and why so many struggled despite increasi...

Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century an...

DescriptionClassic Contemporary is an opportunity for Gosling to explore his influences, including historical sources (dating from the eighteenth c...

Reducere. If you don't know who to trust, keep making stupid mistakes, and question your own judgment...Then keep readingWhy do employers judge candidates on...

Reducere. The most charming homes of the later Victorian era were a sight to behold, from their complex structures to their ornate crafted details. Inside th...

Reducere. A story too secret, too terrifying-and too shockingly intimate-for Victorian eyes. A note to the Editor Dear Henry, I have been Simon Feximal's com...

"Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance." Wilkie Collins's investigation o...

In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not ...

Reducere. Raised in a restrictive and oppressive household, Harriet Frean is used to sacrificing her own happiness and comfort for the sake of others, in fac...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is next in the series of adult grayscale coloring book series featuring restored fashion plate prints from the Victorian Era. They ...

Reducere. The 1890s was a decade of deep and widespread progressive thinking about how the ills of late-Victorian society might be amended. One group of Chri...

Reducere. 99.9% of professional wrestling books are written by men about male performers in a male-dominated business. This book aims to help correct the bal...

Spurgeon was one of the most effective evangelists of all time. Under his ministry Victorian London saw revival on a scale never seen since. Yet Sp...

DescriptionThe magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic...

Reducere. Originally published in 1891, this hilarious (and informative) collection is a treasure trove of essential advice any man or woman, or couple, woul...

Reducere. Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored,...

DescriptionDuring Queen Victoria's long reign there were constant, often subtle, changes to men's clothing in the large, diverse and growing popula...

Can one lonely little boy show the strength and determination to survive the dangers that lie ahead? Traveling along the rocky road from boyhood to...

Reducere. Walden details Henry David Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst...

Reducere. Isabella Astley, a true Victorian lady who was born into one of England's finest houses, wants to control her own destiny. But with a mother who is...

DescriptionThe book provides a comprehensive history of the third largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish ...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a growing philosophical movement among leading business leaders, scientists, artists, politicians and futurists. They believe that...

DescriptionMysteries, hauntings and strange encounters. Now available for the first time on Amazon - the launch issue of OCCULT DETECTIVE QUARTERLY...

Playful Painting: People is a quirky take on portrait instruction--sharpen your skills with 16 step-by-step projects, among them a mixed-media Frid...

Reducere. Young Maggie Greene may be trespassing in the old, empty Victorian mansion on a quiet street in Hidden Springs, but all she wants is some private t...

DescriptionFrom a Carnegie Medal-nominated author comes an exciting Victorian London adventure full of twists and turnsSam Pargeter and his younger...

Reducere. Clare Clark's critically acclaimed The Great Stink "reeks of talent" (The Washington Post Book World) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mys...

Here, for the first time, is a completely authoritative guide on how to look after your old house - whether it's a timber framed medieval cottage, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alice KeelerAuthor: Diana Herrington"Why do I need to know how to do math when I can find the answer on my phone?"If you've...

Reducere. Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes ``Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling w...

Reducere. Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes""Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling wi...

Reducere. Being the heir to Camelot is a tangled mess. Rapunzel has spent her entire life living in Merlin's cave on the coast of Cornwall. Under the protect...

Reducere. Beatrice is proud to present a new edition of A Child's Machiavelli: A Primer on Power by Claudia Hart. Originally published in 1995, A Child's Mac...

An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: "Spooky, haunting, hilarious" (William ...

Reducere. A Marriage Below Zero (1889) is a novel by Alan Dale. Recognized as one of the first English language novels to openly depict homosexuality, the no...

In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, place...

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergenc...

The History of Christmas will take you on a journey from Christ's birth in Bethlehem, through Roman times and the Middle Ages, into the Reformation...

A thrilling Victorian adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge, and friendship Beginning as a mystery and a...

Reducere. Ignored yet again by his crush, Abe Pearlman wanders into Fortunes and Futures for a little diversion. The fortune teller reveals that Abe may be a...

Reducere. No matter how far you run, you can never really escape a haunted past. Darrell Henshaw-teacher, coach, and paranormal sensitive-learned this lesson...

From Katherine Center, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes a stunning new novel full of heart and hope.Samantha Casey l...

Reducere. Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas, However, Sullivan was far from being simply a composer of light ...

Reducere. 'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - a...

Reducere. In Victorian London, long before the term serial killer was coined, two series of murders played out that have captured the imagination of the whol...

Reducere. In Victorian London, long before the term serial killer was coined, two series of murders played out that have captured the imagination of the whol...

A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction?A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian b...

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

Reducere. Composed by Alfred Tennyson as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, "In Memori...

Reducere. In The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charle...

DescriptionJoe Golem is dead. Or is he? The supernatural mysteries continue in the latest volume of the post-apocalyptic series. Simon Church is fa...

Catherine, the wife of Charles Dickens, was herself an author, but of just one book: What Shall we Have for Dinner? Satisfactorily Answered by Nume...