History
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Bridget Ann Henisch

Kitchen Comforts Cooks and their rag-tag crew of helpers faced strenuous days. Not only did they have to produce the meals, they also had to prepare the ingredients in all ...
( Category: History January 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Michael Alexander [Alexander, Michael]

CHAPTER 8 History and Legend THE SUBJECTS OF POETRY AND PAINTING The working definition of medievalism adopted at the outset of this essay in cultural history included a historical or ...
( Category: England January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:Andrew Hui [Hui, Andrew]

Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis arboribusque comae; mutat terra vices, et descrescentia ripas flumina praetereunt. . . . Damna tamen celers reparant caelestia lunae: Nos ubi decidimus Quo pater ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Barelli & Zachary Schisgal

CHAPTER FIVE The Magic Carpet Ride MY EXPERIENCE IN LONDON GAVE ME A NEW PERSPECTIVE AS AN aspiring associate manager of the Met’s Security Department. Within five years, I became ...
( Category: True Crime January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louis de Bernières

IN HAMBLEDON CHURCHYARD, THE GRAVE OF LUCY PARKER I saw your stone and stood appalled, Here in the Surrey Hills, With heaven so close, it’s but a pace From where ...
( Category: Renaissance January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edith Wilmot-Buxtun [Wilmot-Buxtun, Edith]

The Story of Dandolo the Blind Doge; or, The Fourth and Fifth Crusades Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo! Th'octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe. BYRON: Childe Harold. Richard ...
( Category: History January 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

“Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down “And the dews of night arise “Come, come, leave off play, and let us away “Till the morning appears in ...
( Category: Historical December 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 1991-12-12 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

Shona McRury has topaz eyes and long, silky brown hair, like a huge ribbon, caught up at the back with a tortoiseshell comb. She wears topaz ear-rings, little spheres on ...
( Category: Surrealism December 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Amy Maroney [Maroney, Amy]

12 Spring, 1498 Abbey of Belarac, Béarn Béatrice Sebastian accompanied Béatrice to the weaving workshop. A fire blazed in the hearth to keep the workers’ fingers supple as they toiled, ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Temple Drake

AS ZHANG WAITED IN THE LOBBY, the dinner guests paraded past, the men in black tie, the women in haute couture or traditional qipao. He was trying to imagine what ...
( Category: Vampires November 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-06 | Author:Katherine Kovacic [Kovacic, Katherine]

1999 I leave John to his Dutch painting and head off to East Melbourne. I have an appointment at eleven to catalogue and value a private collection, which I’m hoping ...
( Category: Murder November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-02 | Author:Emile Zola

Chapter 3 The convalescence lasted for months. In August Jeanne was still in bed. She got up for an hour or two towards evening and it tired her dreadfully to ...
( Category: French November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Timothy Larsen

For the world is—allow us the homely figure—the human being turned inside out. All that moves in the mind is symbolized in Nature. Or, to use another more philosophical, and ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Mary Ann Caws

Translated by Mary Ann Caws “Vanity, Memory of the Swan,” from Robert Desnos, “The Night of Loveless Nights” (1930). No, Love Is Not Dead No, love is not dead in ...
( Category: European August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jose Saramago [Saramago, José]

10 CAIN HAS NO idea where he is, he can't tell if the donkey is taking him along one of the many roads of the past or along some narrow ...
( Category: Western September 10,2018 )