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Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere by Michael M. Greenburg
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Shapiro

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. To which Juliet replies: Good pilgrim, ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 20,2016 )
Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Hubbard [Hubbard, Kate]

CHAPTER 15 Henry Ponsonby: Private Secretary Whether due to the Brown effect or simply the passage of time, by the late 1860s the worst of the Queen’s grief had passed. ...
( Category: Great Britain April 14,2016 )
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics)
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII I rejoined the First Battalion in March, finding it in the line again, on the Somme. It was the primrose season. We went in and out of the Fricourt ...
( Category: Great Britain April 9,2016 )
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel by Margaret A. Oppenheimer
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Margaret A. Oppenheimer

In the meantime her tussle with Stephen’s relatives went on. Thanks to continued stalling on her part, including an unsuccessful appeal of the decision that barred her from discharging the ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 8,2016 )
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Ian Buruma

Left to right: Hilary, John, Win, Susan, Wendy, and Roger One man who understood this perfectly was Bernard’s closest friend, Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, who succeeded his father in 1942 ...
( Category: Great Britain March 21,2016 )
The Lost Tudor Princess by Alison Weir
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Alison Weir

On the 27th, to gratify the Queen, Lennox went through a ceremony of reconciliation with Châtelherault, his old foe, although their enmity would continue to simmer. Randolph reported on November ...
( Category: Great Britain March 19,2016 )
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Olivia Laing

It was hard to square that statement with the things I’d seen: folder after folder attesting to creative decisions, to choices made and problems solved, though if I’d never read ...
( Category: Great Britain March 17,2016 )
Peacerunner by Penn Rhodeen
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-08 | Author:Penn Rhodeen

Keep in mind, the world was focused on Bosnia and I had tried to get the allies early in ‘93 to agree to have NATO take action there. Warren Christopher ...
( Category: European March 9,2016 )
Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

Looking at Bacon’s plight through modern eyes, it can be difficult to understand why his work was so disliked. We have seen that the man himself, like many other obsessives, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2016 )
Tudor : Passion. Manipulation. Murder. the Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family (9781610393645) by De Lisle Leanda
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:De Lisle, Leanda

Part Three SETTING SUN: THE TUDOR QUEENS Let men that receive of women authority, honour, or office, be most assuredly persuaded, that in so maintaining that usurped power, they declare ...
( Category: Great Britain March 5,2016 )
Globe by Catharine Arnold
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold

7 THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air ...
( Category: Great Britain February 22,2016 )
A Donkey in the Meadow by Derek Tangye
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Tangye

Jeannie, Penny and Fred set out across the stable 11 An eloquent feature of the donkeys was their stare; and we never succeeded in growing accustomed to it. It was ...
( Category: Great Britain February 15,2016 )
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Martha Long [Martha Long]

20 * * * I woke up early, thinking something great is happening today. Me heart was lepping with excitement. I held me breath, waiting to remember what it was. ...
( Category: Great Britain February 15,2016 )

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