The fictionalized account of one of 19th-century England's most notorious scandals, by one of Britain's premier historical novelists. In this story, so full of excitement and mystery that it would seem incredible fiction if it were not based on...
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Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: Plantagenet Saga #4
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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The untimely death of Richard the Lionheart left his nephew Arthur and his younger brother John in contest for the throne of England. Reluctantly the barons chose John, and so began years of rule by a ruthless and greedy tyrant.Yet despite his...
Автор: Richards Laura E.
Серия: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography #1917
Язык: английский
Год: 1915
Статус: Закончена
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson said of Julia Ward Howe’s Reminiscences, published in 1899, that the work might have been “spread out into three or four interesting octavos; but in her hurried grasp it is squeezed into one volume, where groups of...
Автор: Jusserand Jean Jules
Серия: Pulitzer Prize for History #1917
Язык: английский
Год: 1916
Статус: Закончена
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Under the above title M. Jusserand presents the American public with a series of seven studies and addresses which are dedicated in graceful fashion to the thirteen original states. The reputation of the author as a scholar, a statesman, and a...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: The Queens of England Series #6
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
Статус: Закончена
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As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: The Plantagenet Saga #8
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
Статус: Закончена
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Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal. It is assumed that when Edward marries one of the most beautiful...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: The Isabella and Ferdinand Trilogy #3
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
Статус: Закончена
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With Spain now united, Ferdinand looked to his daughters to further his ambitions. All too often, Isabella found herself torn between his brilliant plans and her love for her children. During the last years of Isabella's reign it seemed there was a...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: The Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots Series #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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Scotland has been torn apart by civil war and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies. Under duress, Mary abdicates in favour of her son, James VI, and fleeing to England she boldly seeks refuge from her...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: Plantagenet Saga #11
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
Статус: Закончена
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Richard the Second is losing his hold on the crown and Henry of Bolingbroke, previously exiled by the king, returns to England to claim it. Richard is deposed and dies mysteriously, murdered some say on the orders of Bolingbroke, now King Henry the...
Автор: Kling Christine
Серия: The Shipwreck Adventures #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
Статус: Закончена
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Sex and adventure meet history and intrigue in this breathless nautical thriller that spans decades to imagine a fascinating answer to the real-life mystery of the vanished French sub, Surcouf. When Maggie Riley sets sail for the Caribbean, all...