20th Century
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Victor T. Foia [Foia, Victor T.]

Soon Vlad became convinced his father had failed to quell Nestor’s invasion. If no longer King of Wallachia, he’d be of no further interest to Murad. Neither would Vlad, whose ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Monica Fairview [Fairview, Monica]

CHAPTER 13 Three weeks passed, in which the house was turned into a beehive of frenzied activity as everyone prepared for the descent of twenty guests. Covers were removed, mattresses ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-13 | Author:Tara Cowan [Cowan, Tara]

“Thank you, Shannon,” Lizzie said, making the final tuck in the bodice of her gown. It was for the open ball which would be held at the Weymouth assembly rooms ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 28,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-06 | Author:Kalki R Krishnamurthy [Krishnamurthy, Kalki R]

Chapter 24 Return to Consciousness Vanathi fainted again; her eyes closed gently. Consciousness returned by slow degrees; so did memory, and along with it realisation that her wedding to the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction April 24,2022 )
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( Category: Historical Fiction April 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-27 | Author:Alexa Kingaard [Kingaard, Alexa]

Chapter 23 Two years after Rex was born, Paul and Elizabeth welcomed their second child, a daughter they named Lily. It wasn’t a difficult decision to name her after Paul’s ...
( Category: Modern August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maren Scheurer;

7 “To Keep the Sultan Amused”: Scheherazadian Narration in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Introduction: Puzzle pieces In Margaret Atwood’s novel The Robber Bride (1993), Roz Grunwald rewrites her life’s story ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Laraway

In short, as Dahlmann’s own story continues to evolve toward its inexorable, if ambiguous, conclusion, his future seems to have been shaped—perhaps even overdetermined—by the contours of a highly idealized ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Saverio Tomaiuolo

Whereas the Brixton, Paris and Tottenham riots did not have a definite mastermind, Edginton and Fabbri decided to ‘resuscitate’ Holmes’s traditional enemy Moriarty, who leads an army of zombies. The ...
( Category: Modern July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicolai Volland;

6 MAPPING THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF LITERATURE In the early 1950s, China underwent a revolution of its conceptualization of the world and the PRC’s place therein that was no ...
( Category: Modern June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Kenneth]

Composed over the course of a decade beginning in the mid-1920s, the Ursonate (also known as Sonata in Primeval Sounds or Primitive Sonata) is a classical sonata in four movements, ...
( Category: Modern June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-16 | Author:John Rodden

CHAPTER 9 How and Why Orwell Became “A FAMOUS AUTHOR” Surfing the Tides of Time The Contingencies of Fame The last two chapters have meditated at length on the vicissitudes ...
( Category: Modern April 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Collini, Stefan; [Collini, Stefan]

5 The History of ‘the Reading Public’ I The charged topic of ‘the reading public’ appears to be ineliminably historical. Generalizations about this reified entity almost always have assumptions about ...
( Category: Modern April 14,2020 )