Historical romance

No Ordinary Mistress by Robyn DeHartLondon, 1814Remington Hawthorne, Earl of Latham, has spent his life protecting the Crown.

In this dazzling novella from the award-winning author of The Dark Lady and Lady In Red, comes a story of fatal plots, seductive spies, and irresistible passions.

When Balzac states that his intent is to rescue Catherine's historical reputation, this is from those 19th century French historians who considered her to be an ineffective ruler.

The term poetaster, meaning an inferior poet with pretensions to artistic value, had been coined by Erasmus in 1521.

Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life is a novel written by Margaret Oliphant, who is often referred to as Mrs.

Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield.

In a German Pension is a 1911 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield; her first published collection.

Volpone, Italian for "e;sly fox"e;) is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605-1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.

The Vinegar Saint is a historical novel written by Hughes Mearns that tells the story of the life of St.

A confession of hopes, dreams, failures, and sins, The Flowers of Evil attempts to extract beauty from the malignant.

Eugenie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honore de Balzac.

"e;The Last Vial,"e; written by Sam McClatchie, M.

Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love is a late Elizabethan stage play, a satire written by Ben Jonson.

Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life.

Excerpt: "e;From two till four o'clock on any summer afternoon during the penultimate decade of the last century, the Right Honourable Gustavus Hilary George, third Viscount Murk, Baron Brindle and Knight of the Stews, with orders of demerit innumerable-and, over his quarterings, that bar-sinister which would appear to be designed for emphasis of the fact that the word rank has a double meaning-might be seen (in emulation of a more notable belswagger) ogling the ladies from the verandah of his house in Cavendish Square.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy.

Lady Athlyne is a romance novel by Bram Stoker, written in 1908.

A feel-good historical novel set in a tiny English community during the Victorian era.

The story revolves around the life of a young woman named Marjorie, who is faced with the challenge of choosing between two suitors.

Congreve gives us exactly what a French or English Restoration piece calls for: satire, wit, and an honest yet inconspicuous view of the human condition as perceived in 1695.

The play takes place in London, primarily in the home of Morose.

This is one of Balzac's best stories ever.

Excerpt: "e;In this little book we have some of the best thoughts of one of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of English literature.

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Excerpt: "e;If there were nothing else to recall the day and date, December 14, 1780, I should still be able to name it because it chanced to be my twenty-second birthday, and Jack Pettus, of the Virginia Hundreds, and I were breaking a bottle of wine in honor of it in the bar of old Dirck van Ditteraick's pot-house tavern at Nyack.

Gobseck, an 1830 novella by French author Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), appears in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine.

Excerpt: "e;It was morning on the plains of Asia.

A Sham Princess, by Eglanton Thorne, is a riveting exploration of identity, deception, and social hierarchy set against the backdrop of a fictional European kingdom.

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In "e;Guy Falconer, or, The Chronicles of the Old Moat House"e; by Lucy Ellen Guernsey, readers journey through an intricate tapestry of historical intrigue, familial bonds, and personal growth against the backdrop of a decaying estate.

Nach zwei Jahren an der Universität kehrt Forstwissenschaftler Florian Rohrbacher in sein kleines Alpendorf zurück.

Mit ihrem Portrait des Halligbauernhofs 'Mutterhof' und seiner Bewohner gelang der Heimatschriftstellerin Felicitas Rose (1862 - 1938) ein eindringliches Bild der Lebensverhältnisse auf den ostfriesischen Inseln zu Beginn des Jahrhunderts, das den Vergleich mit Theodor Storms 'Schimmelreiter' nicht scheuen muss.

The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel by Florence Marryat, published in 1897.

A feminist Oedipus, cut through with Wharton's usual condemnation of social class and high society.

It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Leon Marechal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean.

Excerpt: "e;It is Lauraine Douglas' wedding-day.

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The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909.

Excerpt: "e;Gage Flandon put his wife's fur cloak around her and stood back, watching her as she took a final glance into the long mirror in the hall.

The Small Bachelor is a humorous novel by P.

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