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The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

But it was fitting that to the broken stone that guards the bridge, Florence should offer a victim to mark the last day’s peace she has ever known. With such ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Italo Calvino

CITIES & EYES • 4 WHEN YOU HAVE arrived at Phyllis, you rejoice in observing all the bridges over the canals, each different from the others: cambered, covered, on pillars, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-07-14 | Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

January 9th The creature's vocabulary is being enriched by a new word every five minutes (on average) and, since this morning, by sentences. It is as if they had been ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Howards End by E. M. Forster
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:E. M. Forster

CHAPTER XXI Charles had just been scolding his Dolly. She deserved the scolding, and had bent before it, but her head, though bloody was unsubdued and her began to mingle ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2014 )
Tender is the night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-04-07 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

X In Zurich in September Doctor Diver had tea with Baby Warren. “I think it’s ill advised,” she said, “I’m not sure I truly understand your motives.” “Don’t let’s be ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
Anna Karenina (Penguin) by Leo Tolstoy
mobi |eng | 1876-01-01 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

XVIII After his conversation with Alexei Alexandrovich, Vronsky went out to the porch of the Karenins’ house and stopped, hardly remembering where he was and where he had to go ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
Dark Assassin: A Novel by PERRY Anne
mobi |eng | 2006-03-27 | Author:PERRY, Anne [PERRY, Anne]

Monk was late to Wapping station again in the morning. He had not meant to be, but he had fallen asleep again after Hester had wakened him, and even her ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
The Road to Rome by Ben Kane
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Ben Kane

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 25,2014 )
Virgin Earth: A Novel by Philippa Gregory
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Philippa Gregory

The net is closing around me. It is so close now that I can almost see the cords. If Lord Lisle says that he knew I would make the king ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 25 IT WAS NOT, however, the two equal swords of Katelina van Borselen that Nicholas found waiting for him on his return, at long last, to the capital. Before ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

As always now, the reaction was almost more than he could bear. It took a major effort of will, after the messenger had gone and he had dispatched his brother’s ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Hyde Park Headsman by Anne Perry
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Anne Perry

He began with the names she had given him. Roderick Alberd proved to be an eccentric with flying hair and whiskers in the manner of the late Franz Liszt, and ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )

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