18 books like Cleopatra

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History of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt Jacob Abbott · 1851 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Shares: Cleopatra, History

Der Kaiser Georg Moritz Ebers · 1880 · 38p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Diese Sammlung der Werke von Georg Moritz Ebers, des berühmten deutscher Ägyptologe und Schriftstellers und Autors historischer Romane und populärwissenschaftlicher Bücher, enthält:Eine ägyptische KönigstochterUardaHomo sumDie Schwestern.Der KaiserDie Frau BürgemeisterinSerapis.Die NilbrautDie GredPer asperaEin WortHerrn Dr. Karl von BurckhardtIm Schmiedefeuer.Roman aus dem alten NürnbergDie… Shares: Egypt, History

Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, dix ans plus tard Alexandre Dumas · 1848 · ★ 4.0 · 462p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 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… Shares: Histoire, Adventure, History

Coach Art Williams · 2006 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself! Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said… Shares: Histoire, History

All for Love; or, The World Well Lost John Dryden · 1678 · ★ 5.0 · 95p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Written in 1677, Dryden's heroic drama 'All For Love, or, The World Well Lost' is his best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra', and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine. Shares: Cleopatra, History

Eine aegyptische Königstochter Georg Moritz Ebers · 1800 · 46p · ≈ 1h · Challenging It is now four years since this book first appeared before the public, and I feel it my duty not to let a second edition go forth into the world without a few words of accompaniment. It hardly seems necessary to assure my readers that I have endeavored to earn for the following pages the title of a "corrected edition." An author is the father of his book, and what father could see his child… Shares: Egypt, History

Death Comes as the End Agatha Christie · 1944 · ★ 3.7 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging It is 2000 BC in Egypt and Imhotep the Ka-Priest brings home his beautiful young concubine Nofret. But not all the members of his family welcome her. When she is found dead Imhotep's daughter, Renisenb, suspects it might not have been an accident. The death unleashes the greed and hate that have been building up within the family and the horrific events that follow tear it apart.This is… Shares: Egypt, History

By Right of Conquest G. A. Henty · 1890 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Roger Harkshaw and his father, Reuben, want to go to Mexico and try to establish trade with the natives. So, they climb on the  merchant ship Swan. But, the ship wrecks and Roger is the only survived, in Pre-Columbian Mexico. At the beginning, the natives treat him as a God, but they soon decide that he would be the perfect sacrifice for their real gods. For that purpose Roger is sent to a… Shares: Histoire, Adventure, History

Sous l'acacia d'Occident Christian Jacq · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the final novel in the bestselling series, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who wants Ramses to marry his daughter, while revolt is brewing among the revenge-driven Libyans. Shares: Egypt, History

Deadly Wedding Kate Parker · 2016 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate New Cover. Corrections to Americanisms. Same great story. It's a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead.Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture.On the morning of the wedding, the bride's grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then… Shares: Histoire, History

The lays of ancient Rome, with Ivry and the armada Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1851 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Histoire, History

Le fils de la lumière Christian Jacq · 1824 · 409p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In het Egypte van 1200 voor Chr. wordt Ramses door zijn vader aangewezen als zijn opvolger; niet iedereen is het daar mee eens en twee troonpretendenten bereiden een greep naar de macht voor. Shares: Egypt, History

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Histoire, History

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares: Adventure

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares: Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares: Adventure

The murder of King Tut James Patterson · 2009 · ★ 3.4 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A secret buried for centuriesThrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine years, King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history. To this day, his death remains… Shares: Egypt, History

Plays Francis Beaumont · 1778 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Demanding The text of the present volume was passed for press by Arnold Glover and some progress had been made in his lifetime in the collection of the material given in the Appendix. Mrs. Glover’s help has again been most valuable in the completion of the work. The Elder Brother is printed entirely in prose in the Second Folio, and I have therefore printed in the Appendix the play in verse, as it appeared… Shares: Histoire, History

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