Paula Freda writing as Marianne Dora Rose presents two love stories entwined, one-hundred twenty-five years apart, yet linked by one thread, Love's Timeless Secret.
The Wisdom of Antonio transports readers to 1487 Venice, where self-made merchant Antonio da Montenegro's brilliant mind and carefully calculated risks have built a trading empire.
Black Tuesday was the catastrophic stock market crash of October 29, 1929, that marked the dramatic end of the Roaring Twenties and triggered the Great Depression.
On a sweltering September afternoon in 1997, in the quiet Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom, two centuries-old Chinese teapots resurface in an unassuming antique shop.
This book is a fascinating mixture of real history interwoven into an intriguing story that started in mid 17th century France and ultimately moving on to modern day Africa.
Hauptfigur des Romans ist Li Mingdao, der Sohn einer wohlhabenden Gelehrten- und Beamtenfamilie in der Zeit der Nordlichen Song-Dynastie (1127-1279), der mit seiner konfuzianischen Erziehung und Ausbildung und dem fur ihn von der Familie vorgesehenen Ziel, als Beamter im Staatsdienst Karriere zu machen, immer mehr in Konflikt gerat.
After leaving his last place under a cloud, Stephen Davenport is glad to find a job as a secretary at a country estate, helping Mr Alleyn and his wife Lady Priscilla claim the barony of Ravenswick.
Once Upon a Time in the Revolution follows young Spanish officer José de San Martín as he rides across Argentina's vast pampas in 1806, unaware his destiny awaits at a distant campfire.
The Vengeance of Dmitri Volkov transports readers to Imperial Russia's twilight years, where aristocratic cavalry officer Dmitri Volkov witnesses his family's brutal massacre during the 1905 Revolution.
For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War was really about "e;states' rights,"e; economics, or cultural differences.
He contado en el prologo de mi libro En el pais del Arte (Tres meses en Italia) como a mediados de 1895 tuve que huir de Valencia, despues de una manifestacion contra la guerra colonial, que degenero en movimiento sedicioso, dando origen a un choque de los manifestantes con la fuerza publica.
Vio con el mismo aspecto exterior cosas y personas al salir de su abstracción; pero una vida interna, ruidosa y móvil parecía haber nacido en las cosas hasta entonces inanimadas, mienVio con el mismo aspecto exterior cosas y personas al salir de su abstracción; pero una vida interna, ruidosa y móvil parecía haber nacido en las cosas hasta entonces inanimadas, mientras la vida ordinaria callaba y se encogía en las personas, como poseída de súbita timidez.
"e;Lady Susan"e;, Austen's "e;most wicked tale, and "e;it is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
These elders, our betters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy-of their good luck-and pity-for their inability to make use of it.
