Download or read book Madame Two Swords written by Tanith Lee and published by Immanion Press/Magalithica Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella by Tanith Lee, previously published only in a limited edition in 1988
Download or read book The Two Swords written by S.C. Parris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xavier Delacroix must travel back into the Dark WOrld to take back the Great Vampire's sword. But he finds the Dark World has changed since his last visit, and the one who holds the sword is not ready to give it up.
Download or read book Little written by Edward Carey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE "An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." —Gregory Maguire, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do. In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing cavalcade of a novel—a story of art, class, determination, and how we hold on to what we love.
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Download or read book Gentlemen Formerly Dressed written by Sulari Gentill and published by Pantera Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BIZARRE MURDER PLUNGES THE HAPLESS AUSTRALIANS INTO A QUEER WORLD OF BRITISH ARISTOCRACY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, SCANDAL, SPIES and FASCIST BLACKSHIRTS. A WORLD WHERE GENTLEMEN ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY ARE DRESSED UP TO BE. The Fifth Book of the Acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Handsome, the epitome of stoicism and dignity, wry and witty despite his impeccable manners, protagonist Rowland Sinclair is an Oxford educated gentleman artist in his late 20s who enjoys being the black sheep of his conservative and wealthy family. Rowland has narrowly escaped Germany, damaged – physically and emotionally. Having spent time in Germany as a young man in the 1930s, he is horrified by the changes that have come about under the Nazi government. The country which he knew as the centre of modern art and culture is now, under Hitler, oppressed and brutalised. For the first time, he is moved to take a stance, to try and sway the political thought of the time. He doesn't really know what he is doing, or what should be done, but he is consumed with a notion that something should be done. Aristocrats with secrets. Scandalous rogues clad in tailcoats and sensational gowns. Danger is formally dressed. And Edna, siren, emancipated sculptress, the object of Rowland's deepest, unspoken desires, is by his side and yet out of his reach.
Download or read book A Princess of Adventure Marie Caroline Duchess de Berry written by Hugh Noel Williams and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Arry Ballads written by Patricia Marks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic notion of the Cockney, the shrewd and slangy common man coming from nowhere and surviving by his wits, is best exemplified by E.J. Milliken's character 'Arry and the verse letters or ballads he writes. The letters and stories, as well as the character of 'Arry, were Milliken's vehicles for social criticism, namely the intolerance shown by the aristocracy. Those letters, colorful additions to Victorian history and humor, tell the story of 'Arry, a commoner who is enamored of the social hierarchy, and who is keenly aware how close the top and bottom rungs are. Central to the themes is the Cockney whose pride is his dialect. Confidence in the face of the class system and withering social criticism make Milliken's 'Arry ballads memorable. This work analyzes the Cockney ballads and contains extensive annotations. Each chapter is dedicated to a facet of the everyday life of the common man in Victorian England, including entertainment, travel, and politics. Each is prefaced with a short analytical history of the period which also places the letters in context.
Download or read book Daughter of Markus written by Shakna Israel and published by James Milne. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of "The Heart of Madness" released for free. Bethia was a young girl abandoned at an orphanage, until the day that Markus of Eli, the dragon slayer from the war, strode into her life, from there, she changed both the worlds, and became the hero of Fae and Human alike.
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Playgroup written by Janey Fraser and published by Embla Books. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janey Fraser's collection of uplifting, funny and relatable novels is back with a new look. Stay tuned for more this 2024!
Download or read book The New Musketeers written by Dannie Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...* A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers... sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters and an important mission to complete. Will they fool the king? Will they save the day? Will they even work out which end of the sword to use?! The New Musketeers features brilliant music, terrible sword fighting and a hilarious cast of characters. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in December 2022. *Are not in this play
Download or read book Some Old Friends written by Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Victorian Comic Spirit written by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.
Download or read book The Brighton Road written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
