Historical
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Seventeen Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, alone at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn’t see ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 18,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1993-02-28 | Author:Rimmer, Peter [Rimmer, Peter]

In the nine years since his marriage, Rupert Pengelly had prospered greatly and had returned all his hard-earned profit to the farm. Arthur had been conceived on their honeymoon overlooking ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:Christine Trent [Trent, Christine]

Chapter 16 The British delegation boarded SMS Viribus Unitis a half hour later. They were escorted into Franz-Josef’s reception quarters by Karl Dorn, the emperor’s chamberlain, who bowed stiffly before ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Malla Nunn

A pain that could not be cured by morphine or any other drug pressed against Emmanuel’s skull. The sergeant major’s voice would come soon, spitting and swearing. Expect pain. Accept ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard C. Morais

Chapter Nine The sun chased the last sugar into the grapes that hung from trellises in the back of Brooklyn homes. The last fire hydrant of the season was opened ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andy Adams

CHAPTER XIV ~ SLAUGHTER’S BRIDGE Herds bound for points beyond the Yellowstone, in Montana, always considered Dodge as the halfway landmark on the trail, though we had hardly covered half ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-14 | Author:RONAN BENNETT

After we’d been together a couple of months she’d had to return to Rome to talk to the paper about her contract. We decided that instead of her coming straight ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

CHAPTER 13: THE MASSACRE OF CHOLULA. ~ THE TLASCALANS HAD, FROM THE moment when they admitted themselves beaten by the Spaniards, laid aside all hostility; and had, indeed, accepted the ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:E.B. Moore

( Category: Native American March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Sir Walter]

"It is the badness of his fare that has put him out of humour," said the Countess Isabelle. "Cheer up, Seignior Quentin, and should we ever visit my ancient Castle ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1874-11-15 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

Part 2 Chapter 1 A Tartar camp AT a day's march from Kolyvan, several versts beyond the town of Diachinks, stretches a wide plain, planted here and there with great ...
( Category: War & Military March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-10 | Author:Eduard Kochergin

KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT, IGNORANCE IS DARKNESS The school that I first ended up in could hardly be called an institution of education. It was a long horizontal barracks divided in ...
( Category: Biographical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Lydia Gastrell [Gastrell, Lydia]

Chapter Eleven Shock John awoke to the sound of water being poured. By the time he opened one crusty eye, a servant was already pulling the door closed behind him. ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:E. M. Delafield [Delafield, E. M.]

(Feel that Tetsie and I would have at least one thing in common, which is more than I can say about anybody else in the room--but this frame of mind ...
( Category: Humorous March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ursula Hegi

1904–1907 Chapter 18 IT WAS RAINING like that the afternoon Frau Abramowitz hoisted Thekla onto her desk in the living room and told her the most beautiful word in all ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )