Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Saylor [Saylor, Steven]

• • • I woke to the smell of roasting pork. An hour earlier, another guest had arrived at Cicero's villa, accompanied by a sizable retinue. Cicero had ordered a ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-03-19 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Chapter 15. Sir Montagu Corner It was about ten o’clock when we reached Sir Montagu Corner’s house on the river at Chiswick. It was a big house standing back in ...
( Category: Murder March 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Kane [Kane, Ben]

Late that night, they left the Thracians snoring in the cell. Creeping into the unlit training yard after Brennus, Romulus closed the door quietly. The ludus was silent. Gladiators rose ...
( Category: Military March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Kane [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XVII: Homecoming At the junction, Tarquinius stopped. The northern Italian countryside had been growing more familiar since before dawn, but he knew this spot better than anywhere in the ...
( Category: Military March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gao Xingjian [Xingjian, Gao]

28 It was winter again. The stove door was shut, and he was sitting in bed, propped up against the headboard. The only light came from the table lamp, and ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:MIKHAIL BULGAKOV [BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL]

Twelve In Alexei's small bedroom dark-colored blinds had been pulled down on the two windows that gave on to the glazed verandah. Twilight filled the room. Elena's golden-red hair seemed ...
( Category: Military March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marion Marion Bradley [Bradley, Marion]

Even before she rose from her bed, Gwenhwyfar could feel the bright sunlight through the bed-curtains-Summer is here. And then, Beltane. The very fullness of pagandom-she was sure that many ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

After Oren had gone he sat over his coffee a long time. Through the window far to the south he could see the thin white adderstongues of lightning licking silently ...
( Category: Westerns March 13,2018 )
epub | | 2009-09-10 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing III IT WAS ALL BUT DARK when they rode past the main house and along the drive, past the porticoes with their slender carved ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 13,2018 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1944-12-31 | Author:Ivo Andric

XIV Life in the town beside the bridge became more and more animated, seemed more and more orderly and fuller, assuming an even pace and a hitherto unknown balance, that ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Arturo Perez Reverte

The Club Dumas fingers and frowning. “Yes, he called me the other day. Something about Dumas.” Corso put his bag on the table and took out the folder with the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 10,2018 )
epub, azw3 |spa | 2000-01-01 | Author:José Saramago [Saramago, José]

Cipriano Algor dreamed that he was inside his new kiln. He felt happy because he had managed to persuade his daughter and his son-in-law that the sudden increase in activity ...
( Category: Magical Realism March 7,2018 )
epub |fra | | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Obviously, these panels had been drawn months earlier, and despite the course of events the editors of Il Vittorioso lacked the courage to cut the series short. They went forward ...
( Category: Psychological March 3,2018 )
epub | | 2009-04-30 | Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon [Zafon, Carlos Ruiz]

Vaiste em sombras, pensei. Como viveste. 43. Pouco antes das três da tarde apanhei o autocarro, no Paseo de Colón, que havia de me levar até ao cemitério de Montjuic. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese February 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ivo Andrić [Andrić, Ivo]

( Category: Spanish & Portuguese February 11,2018 )