7 Bücher ähnlich wie Kenilworth
Der Drache und der Rabe
For many years England was assailed by Danish hordes whose barbarians reduced the Saxons to pitiable legions of disconnected and ravished communities. In the later 800's A.D. a man named Alfred emerged from the darkened European scene and by his wisdom and knowledge and bravery, he gathered together an army of valorous warriors who banished the Vikings back to the North. This true historic tale…
Gemeinsame Themen: Great Britain, History
Der Vicomte von Bragelonne oder: Zehn Jahre später
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon…
Gemeinsame Themen: Histoire, History
Mein frühes Leben
American edition (New York, C. Scribner's sons) has title: A roving commission; my early life.
Gemeinsame Themen: Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain
Admiral Hornblower in der Karibik
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
Gemeinsame Themen: Great Britain in fiction, History
Der heidnische Herrscher
As the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, prepare to invade England, Uhtred, who is now out of favor with the new king, leads a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, but is soon drawn into the bloodiest battle yet that will decide the fate of the entire English nation.
Gemeinsame Themen: Histoire, Great Britain, History
Das Zeitalter der Unschuld
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but…
Gemeinsame Themen: Marriage, Drama
Die Krise
"The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the U.S. Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family."--Wikipedia
Gemeinsame Themen: Histoire, Drama, History