Download or read book The Splendor Before the Dark written by Margaret George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero’s ascent to the throne was only the beginning....Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome’s most infamous emperor cements his place in history. With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero commands the Roman empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is unquestioned. But in the tenth year of his reign, a terrifying prophecy comes to pass and a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Rumors of Nero’s complicity in the blaze start to sow unrest among the populace—and the politicians.... For better or worse, Nero knows that his fate is now tied to Rome’s—and he vows to rebuild it as a city that will stun the world. But there are those who find his rampant quest for glory dangerous. Throughout the empire, false friends and spies conspire against him, not understanding what drives him to undertake the impossible. Nero will either survive and be the first in his family to escape the web of betrayals that is the Roman court, or be ensnared and remembered as the last radiance of the greatest dynasty the world has ever known. “A resplendent novel filled with the gilt and marble of the ancient world.”—C. W. Gortner, author of The Romanov Empress

Download or read book The Confessions of Young Nero written by Margaret George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history. Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar’s imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman—or child. As a boy, Nero’s royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure her own son’s inheritance. Faced with shocking acts of treachery, young Nero is dealt a harsh lesson: it is better to be cruel than dead. While Nero idealizes the artistic and athletic principles of Greece, his very survival rests on his ability to navigate the sea of vipers that is Rome. The most lethal of all is his own mother, a cold-blooded woman whose singular goal is to control the empire. With cunning and poison, the obstacles fall one by one. But as Agrippina’s machinations earn her son a title he is both tempted and terrified to assume, Nero’s determination to escape her thrall will shape him into the man he was fated to become—an Emperor who became legendary. With impeccable research and captivating prose, The Confessions of Young Nero is the story of a boy’s ruthless ascension to the throne. Detailing his journey from innocent youth to infamous ruler, it is an epic tale of the lengths to which man will go in the ultimate quest for power and survival.

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Download or read book The Complete Works of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 6435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow present to you this meticulously edited and formatted George Eliot collection._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Adam Bede_x000D_ The Mill on the Floss_x000D_ Silas Marner_x000D_ Romola_x000D_ Felix Holt, the Radical_x000D_ Middlemarch_x000D_ Daniel Deronda_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Scenes of Clerical Life_x000D_ The Lifted Veil_x000D_ Brother Jacob_x000D_ Poetry:_x000D_ The Spanish Gypsy_x000D_ The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems:_x000D_ The Legend of Jubal_x000D_ Agatha_x000D_ Armgart_x000D_ How Lisa Loved the King_x000D_ A Minor Prophet_x000D_ Brother and Sister_x000D_ Stradivarius_x000D_ A College Breakfast-Party_x000D_ Two Lovers_x000D_ Self and Life_x000D_ Sweet Endings Come and Go, Love_x000D_ The Death of Moses_x000D_ Arion_x000D_ O May I Join the Choir Invisible_x000D_ Other Poems:_x000D_ Count that Day Lost_x000D_ Farewell_x000D_ On Being Called a Saint_x000D_ Sonnet_x000D_ Question and Answer_x000D_ Mid my Gold-Brown Curls_x000D_ Mid the Rich Store_x000D_ As Tu Va la Lune se Lever_x000D_ In A London Drawing Room_x000D_ Arms! To Arms!_x000D_ Ex Oriente Lux_x000D_ In the South_x000D_ Will Ladislaw's Song_x000D_ Erinna_x000D_ I Grant you Ample Leave_x000D_ Mordecai's Hebrew Verses_x000D_ Making Life Worth While_x000D_ Essays:_x000D_ Impressions of Theophrastus Such_x000D_ Three Months in Weimar_x000D_ Carlyle's Life of Sterling_x000D_ Woman in France: Madame de Sablé_x000D_ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming_x000D_ German Wit: Henry Heine_x000D_ The Natural History of German Life_x000D_ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists_x000D_ Worldliness and Other-Worldliness: The Poet Young_x000D_ The Influence of Rationalism_x000D_ The Grammar of Ornament_x000D_ Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt_x000D_ George Forster_x000D_ Margaret Fuller_x000D_ How to Avoid Disappointment_x000D_ The Wisdom of the Child_x000D_ A Little Fable with a Great Moral_x000D_ Hints on Snubbing_x000D_ From the Note-Book of an Eccentric_x000D_ Leaves from a Note-Book_x000D_ Translations:_x000D_ The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach_x000D_ George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals – Biography

Download or read book The Romances of George Sand written by Faktorovich, Anna and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romances of George Sand takes the heroine from a childhood in the aristocracy amidst the Napoleonic Wars, to an unhappy early marriage and eventual divorce, to her careers as a country doctor, pharmacist, lawyer, and most successfully as a romance novelist. This is a story about the revolutions in a woman’s heart as she goes through dozens of love affairs. It is also about George’s involvement in violent, political revolutions of her time, including the July and June Revolutions and the 1848 Revolution; in the latter, she served as the unofficial Minister of Propaganda. The story is full of military battles, coup d’etat maneuvers, duels, malevolent plots, infidelity, artistic discussions, monumental legal cases, and reflections on the nature of love, family, romance, rebellion, and femininity. The history behind each of the events depicted is researched with biographical precision, but liberty is taken with some events that have been contested by historians, including the lesbian affair George had with Marie Dorval and the identity of the real father of her second child. Students of literature and history will recognize many of the central characters, as George befriended Napoleon I and III, Alexander Dumas pere and fils, Frederic Chopin, Alfred de Musset, and a long list of other notables.

Download or read book St George of Cappadocia in Legend and History written by Cornelia Steketee Hulst and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Emperor The Gods of War written by Conn Iggulden and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys The year is 53 B.C. Julius Caesar approaches his final destiny—a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and a bewitching Egyptian queen named Cleopatra. . . . Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads his battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon.The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, author Conn Iggulden brings to life a world marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.

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