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Histoire de Charles XII
Shares Kings and rulers, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir, History with this book.
Torches Together
**Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of…
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Lives
Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome.
Shares Classical biography, Rome, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir
A history of England in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Shares Civilization, Politics and government, Kings and rulers, Early works to 1800
Lays of ancient Rome
Noteworthy among Macaulay's works are his poems, of which the 'Lays of Ancient Rome' are chief. Here his purpose is to embody his conception of the heroic historical ballads which must have been current among the early Romans as among the medieval English
Shares Rome, History
Vitae excellentium imperatorum
Shares Classical biography, Rome, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir with this book.
Alcatraz
Shares Romans, Biography & Memoir with this book.
Catilina's Riddle
Catilina's Riddle
63 BC: Gordianus attempts to find out why headless bodies keep appearing on his newly-inherited farm and contend with hostile neighbors—all cousins of his benefactor—while he is entangled in republican conspiracy and counter-conspiracy. in Rome, Meto celebrates his toga party, on his sixteenth birthday.
Shares Rome, Romans, History
Dracula, prince of many faces
Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad Dracula of Romania (1431 - 1476), nicknamed the Impaler. Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Dracula was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth…
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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Marse Henry : An Autobiography
Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Mr. Nice
Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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A history of autobiography in antiquity
A history of autobiography in antiquity
Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.
Missing Persons
Missing Persons
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The Library of American Biography
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Autobiography
Autobiography
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Two Sisters
Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.”
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