epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Eight Alfred was buried. The burial took five hours of praying, chanting, weeping, and preaching. The old king had been placed in an elm coffin painted with scenes from the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jonathan Clements

7 BEYOND THE EDGE OF THE WORLD ICELAND, GREENLAND AND VINLAND There are some who claim that Gotland, with its hoards of silver, is the treasury of the Viking Age. ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Heather, Peter

THE PERILS OF POPE LEO The answer to the second question is straightforward. The only legitimate emperor, according to all the official definitions of imperial propaganda, was one who was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Timothy Venning

Ireland The Church in Rome had sponsored the civilising missions of Palladius and Patrick in the real-life mid-fifth century. If the Western Empire had continued, Rome’s interest in the project ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-15 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

There were six of us: the man who poled the punt, Iseult and I, two of the newly arrived household troops, and Alfred. I tried once again to make him ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Alice Hoffman [Hoffman, Alice]

One night the door to my bedroom opened. There was my father. He’d been at a tavern, and he carried the smell of rum, which reminded me of formaldehyde. It ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Robert Harris [Harris, Robert]

Boisdeffre is seated behind his grand desk, his elegant hands palm-down on the surface; a copy of L’Éclair lies between them. He says, “I gather you saw the minister yesterday.” ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

What could I say to all this - what could I? I staggered into an arm-chair, and, with staring eyes and open mouth, awaited the solution of the wonder. "Strange ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Thatcher, Margaret [Thatcher, Margaret]

In that election campaign, defence would be of great political importance. Yet I had no doubt that the result would ultimately depend on the economy. Our economic course had already ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]

“A PIECE OF EIGHT HAS eight reals—” Eliza said, later, having spent the last two hours sitting perfectly motionless while Jack paced, leaped, and cavorted about her bedchamber relating all ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Margaret MacMillan

CHAPTER 13 The Crises Start: Germany, France and Morocco In the early spring of 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm was on one of his frequent cruises, this time southwards down the Atlantic ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:George Orwell

Chapter X It must have been three days after the Barcelona fighting ended that we returned to the front. After the fighting – more particularly after the slanging-match in the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-22 | Author:Michael Steinberger [Steinberger, Michael]

The Raw and the Cooked IN THE MONTHS PRECEDING the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, relations between the United States and France turned testier than at any time since ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

On Beauty library. They stood facing each other, almost the same height thanks to her towering boots. Vee hugged herself and plaintively pulled her lower lip under her large front ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Miranda Hart [Hart, Miranda]

By the time I actually get to see the doctor, I’m usually a bundle of nerves. And when I’m in any way nervous, I have a tendency to attempt what ...