The Coquette: Or, the History of Eliza Wharton, Paperback - Hannah Webster Foster

Reducere. The demise of a respectable but unloved fianc introduces a sudden and intoxicating freedom into Eliza Wharton's life. Two new beaus vie for her att...

Reducere. The Coquette (1797) is a novel by American author Hannah Webster Foster. Published anonymously, The Coquette was one of eighteenth-century America'...

``Oh thou savage-hearted monsterWhat work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance `` Pressured by her unscrupulous family ...

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Reducere. The Custom of the Country tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a famil...

When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own peo...

Reducere. Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster's The Coquette (1797) were two of the earl...

La Violencia exposes the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current crisis in Catalonia.

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A fascinating insight into two of the brewing greats

Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kep...

Reducere. Good-looking, kind-hearted Evelina Anville has grown up in rural obscurity as the ward of a country parson. At the age of seventeen, she begins her...

Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valen...

DescriptionIn Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesth...

The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose p...

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Reducere. In The World of William Penn Foster explores the wide sphere of the humble Quaker, William Penn. From the courtyards of the Sun King to the royal c...

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DescriptionWhen a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciti...

Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma,...

For fans of the musical Hamilton, here is a stunning picture book biography about Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, American Founding Father Alexander H...

The Art of Eliza Ivanova is an evocative, edgy, and beautiful book filled with the work of this exciting artist. A graduate of the California Insti...

Reducere. Focusing on major issues and in a non-polemical way, William Webster raises questions about doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church that current Cat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings, " whose work probes...

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Reducere. DescriptionA Highlander tamed... Laird Daniel Murray seeks adventure, battle and freedom for his countrymen. Putting off his duties as laird-with a...

Reducere. DescriptionEdith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Al...

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The stories of the innocent; the survivors and those left behind, who paid the price of terrorism in Northern IrelandPublisher: The History Press L...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Hannah Star RogersIllustration(s): 42 figuresNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 3...

Reducere. Hero - Martyr - PoetThe inspiring story of a remarkable life cut short. "I don't think Hannah wanted to die for the sake of having her memory exalt...

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The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Reducere. The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crow...

The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-...