Download or read book The Little Dowager written by Mrs. Sale Barker and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of the Dangerous Dowager written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Matilda Benson solicits the help of Perry Mason, her request seems simple enough: cruise to a gambling ship moored just beyond the twelve-mile limit and buy back the IOUs signed by Miss Benson's niece. But after Mason reaches the floating casino, he discovers problems aplenty -- most notably the ship's owner with a bullet hole through his head. Strangely enough, Matilda and her niece are also on board that night . . . when someone tosses a gun over the railing. Does Perry Mason's client have something to hide?
Download or read book Empress Dowager Cixi written by Jung Chang and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress, overturning centuries of traditions and formalities to bring China into the modern world. A woman, an Empress of immense wealth who was largely a prisoner within the compound walls of her palaces, a mother, a ruthless enemy, and a brilliant strategist: Chang makes a compelling case that Cixi was one of the most formidable and enlightened rulers of any nation. Cixi led an intense and singular life. Chosen at the age of 12 to be a concubine by the Emperor Xianfeng, she gave birth to his only male heir who at four was designated Emperor when his father died in 1861. In a brilliant move, the young woman enlisted the help of the Emperor's widow and the two women orchestrated a coup that ousted the regents and made Cixi sole Regent. Untrained and untaught, the two studied history and politics together, ruling the huge nation from behind a curtain. When her boy died, Cixi designated a young nephew as Emperor, continuing her reign till her death in 1908. Chang gives us a complex, riveting portrait of Cixi through a reign as long as that of her fellow Empress, Victoria, whom she longed to meet: her ruthlessness in fighting off rivals; her curiosity to learn; her reliance on Westerners who she placed in key positions; and her sensitivity and desire to preserve the distinctiveness of China's past while overturning traditions (she, as Chang reveals--not Mao, as he claimed--banned footbinding) and exposing its culture to western ideas and technology.
Download or read book Empress Dowager Cixi written by X. L. Woo and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all the history of China, only two women ever conquered and held the heights of power. Both enjoyed long reigns characterized by ruthless intrigue; they maintained an iron grip at the center while the vast country was torn by rebellions and caught up i.
Download or read book The Case of the Dotty Dowager written by Cathy Ace and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gratifying contemporary series in the traditional British manner with hilarious repercussions. Cozy fans will anticipate learning more about these WISE ladies” - Library Journal Starred Review Meet the Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency. The first in a new series. Henry Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is convinced his mother is losing her marbles. She claims to have seen a corpse on the dining-room floor, but all she has to prove it is a bloodied bobble hat. Worried enough to retain the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency – one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish and one English – Henry wants the strange matter explained away. But the truth of what happened at the Chellingworth Estate, set in the rolling Welsh countryside near the quaint village of Anwen by Wye, is more complex, dangerous, and deadly, than anyone could have foreseen . . .
Download or read book The Dowager s Daughter written by Mona Prevel and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affairs of the state will soon give way to affairs of the heart. Althea Markham shoulders many burdens of being an unattached countess—wading through the collection of gold-diggers and rogues to find a suitable husband, providing her family with a male heir, and most of all, protecting her mother, who tends to acts more debutante than dowager. As she sneaks away for illicit meetings with a mysterious stranger, Althea is determined to unveil his identity—and his intentions. Desperate to escape from beneath the shadow of his older brother, John Ridley takes part in a daring game of espionage against the French. Posing as a smuggler, he engages with the charming Celeste Markham. But despite her winsome allure, it is her daughter, Althea, who seizes John's attention. As affairs of the state give way to affairs of heart, John must convince Althea that she can trust him with her future, and her love.
Download or read book Blotto Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess written by Simon Brett and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of aristocrat siblings must find a killer to clear their chauffeur’s name when a weekend house party goes awry in this historical mystery. Hurrah for the return of that intrepid duo: Blotto (handsome, honorable, not the sharpest knife in the drawer), and his sister Twinks (just a bit brainier than a girl should be)! As this is the 1920s, they are of course attending a weekend house party, where—how astonishing!—a murder is announced. One of the guests has the gall to accuse Corky, the siblings’ family chauffeur, so Blotto and Twinks have no choice but to find the real murderer and clear Corky’s good name. And also, you know, keep Corky from hanging and so on. Their sleuthing will take them to an opium den, a crumbling Scottish castle, and—most thrillingly—the headquarters of the evil League of the Crimson Hand. Second in Brett’s highly praised, outrageously funny new series of parodies of the Golden Age of mystery. “Brett intensifies the satire and the action, delivering readers absolute barrages of wordplay and one-liners, which make this romp reminiscent of theatrical farces like The Importance of Being Earnest or You Can’t Take It with You. . . . As in his other novels, Brett is a devastating social critic . . . and master of devastating physical characterization. This is the kind of book you’ll have to put down, frequently, as you roar with laughter.” —Booklist, starred review
Download or read book A Gardener s Life written by Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Salisbury has been a gardener since, as a child in the 1930s, she cultivated tiny patches of her parents' gardens in Ireland and the West of England. Later, as chatelaine first of Cranborne Manor and then of Hatfield House, she revived two of the great historic gardens of England. Then there the gardens that, as a professional garden designer, she has created for others, notably for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and for the Museum of Garden History and Cosby Hall in London ('As a gardener who has lived the greater part of her life in Tudor and Stuart houses, to be asked to design a garden for an Elizabethan palace was an enjoyable challenge'). Renowned for her depth of scholarship and her design skill, she has also led the way in as a pioneer of organic gardening ('when I began, in 1948, I was written off as a complete crank'). Now in her eighties, she not only continues to tend her garden in Provence, she is also making a roof garden ('the first I've ever done') for her house in Chelsea, and designing gardens for clients in England, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book encapsulates her gardening experience.
Download or read book Prince s Favorite Please Be My Consort written by Zao ChunWanDong and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone said that the Third Young Miss of the Prime Minister's Estate was an immoral trash who would only chase after the crown prince's obsession. If the crown prince wasn't happy, she wouldn't be able to marry him in her entire life.F * ck.It was all nonsense!She was infatuated with him?The first thing Xia Sizhu did after entering the palace was to cancel the Crown Prince's engagement.She's trash?How could she not be adept at refining poison!That she couldn't get married?What was the matter with that famous war god, Dongfang Ye, chasing after her with all his might?!"Dongfang Ye, let me beg you, please don't chase me, okay?"The man smiled, "Not good, Ah Zhu. If you don't let me chase after you, don't tell me you've fallen for someone else?"
Download or read book His Majesty is Scheming written by Tian Qin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE: What? I will be south for two months. Mu Fei is pregnant with Yi Yue? Someone! Send this disloyal woman into the cold palace!SHE: When I woke up, I was sent to live with crazy women in the Cold Palace for no reason. What? Was she ugly? She couldn't keep the baby? Even if she wanted to hang herself? What kind of emperor was this?!When she raised her head, she was stunned. It was him? That cold and bloodthirsty man! Very good, a new round of war had begun!He was going to send her to the Valley of Death to reflect on her for a year? Just go! A year later, she said, It's fun here. I'm not going back to the palace.He:% #%...*He doesn't want a child? Humph! It doesn't matter, at most This Miss will secretly raise it.Xiao Bao Bao: Mother, why are you dressing me up like a pet dog?SHE: Because. Because you are a child that no one wants, everyone wants to beat you up.Xiao Bao Bao: I really miss Royal Father. Got it! He sneaked into the palace to ask Royal Father for some sweets.He: Damn it, where did this weird dog come from!
Download or read book Imperial Concubine Punishes Bad Men written by Qu Huoshui and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single set of Heavenly Tribulation had caused two fairies to bear the eternal curse and live forever in the mortal world!An emotional betrayal had allowed her to travel through her previous life at any cost, just to compete with the third party!The princess of Jin Zhi's Jade Leaf had suddenly met an unexpected success. Xiang Tianya vowed to avenge himself!Fighting with others, fighting with the heavens, unable to defeat his own conscience!He had won the glory on the surface, but he had lost all of his dignity and dignity!He was his brother, his political enemy, his love rival; what did they get after all, contrary to ethics?She had struggled with her on the brink of death several times. She had paid any price for the sake of winning against the heavens!
Download or read book 1Q84 written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Morning Light written by Edward Forde Hickey and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Morning Light celebrates the life of a small child, whose parents rescue him from London’s Blitz (September 1940) shortly after his birth and send him to live with his widowed grandmother and her son in north Tipperary among a vibrant hillside community.
