Nobility
11Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes (2013)
Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the… 1009 руб12Cry to Heavean , Rice Anne (2004)
In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with… 655 руб13The Poetry of Tennyson , Henry Van Dyke (1893)
1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets,-great in… 1317 руб14The Lily Of The Valley , Honore De Balzac (1897)
These arrangements and this new happiness shed some balm upon the count's sore mind. The presence of the Duchesse de Lenoncourt at Clochegourde was a great event to the neighborhood. I reflected… 1317 руб15Cry to Heaven , Anne Rice (1995)
They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility… 607 руб16To Kill a Tsar , Andrew Williams (2011)
April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a… 849 руб17The Mirrored World , Dean Debra (2013)
The bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born… 1080 руб18Suite Francaise , Irene Nemirovsky (2007)
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored… 619 руб19Suite Francaise , Irene Nemirovsky (2015)
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, "Suite Francaise" falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second… 869 руб20The Trojan Women and Other Plays (2001)
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which… 199 руб
