Author : Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780461536652
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Author : Amelia B. Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781331445166
Excerpt from Barbara's History, Vol. 2 of 3 Shade of Polyphemus, and so do I I A little more, and I should have been crushed as flat as Acis, without even a Galatea to weep for me. Poor Old Paolo! Heaven grant that mine auces tral rats have not quite eaten him up by this time. But, Barbarina, how came you here? And why 7 Have you adopted art as a profession? What are your plans, prospects, and so forth? Why, you have a thousand things to tell me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781330929988
Excerpt from Barbara's History, Vol. 3 of 3 My aunt, meanwhile, recovered rapidly; and, save such inevitable alteration as seven years must work, looked much the same as ever. Her step perhaps was a shade less firm, her carriage a trifle less erect, her voice a little less resonant, than when I first came to live with her at Stoneycroft Hall; but her eye was as vigilant, and her tongue as caustic, as of old. As for her temper, it had become far more sour and overbearing than I had ever known it before. While she was yet very ill I began to suspect this; and as she got well, I saw it more and more plainly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Amelia B. Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2015-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781331680826
Excerpt from Barbara's History, Vol. 1 of 3 I am answered. A pleasant calm steals upon me; and, as one might step aside from the troubled streets, to linger awhile in the quiet sanctuary of a wayside church, so I now turn from the eager present, tread the dim aisles of the past, sigh over the inscriptions graven on one or two dusty tablets, and begin with the recollections of infancy this narrative of my life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. E. Braddon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2018-01-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780483842977
Excerpt from The Story of Barbara, Vol. 2: Her Splendid Misery and Her Gilded Cage; A Novel It seems like a bit of some grand old world where giants may have lived and flourished. There is a spaciousness, an airiness, unknown in a pastoral country hemmed in by hedgerows and dotted with the dwellings of humanity. Here you may drive for miles without passing a human habitation. Even those open stretches of land redeemed from barren ness to the uses of agriculture have a Wild nu tenanted look. One sees no labourer at work. All is silence and loneliness. No voice save the ever lasting voices Of Nature the hum of the bee among the heather; ocean's mighty diapason dwindling to a murmur in the sunny distance; the cry of the sea gull the melodious rapture of the lark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. E. Braddon
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781330548844
Excerpt from The Story of Barbara, Vol. 3 of 3: Her Splendid Misery and Her Gilded Cage; A Novel Mrs. Trevornock and Flossie were quick to respond to Barbara's summons. The little house in South-lane was a very pleasant abode in these latter days, when there was always a certainty of sending the tax-gatherer away rejoicing, and Amelia could have butcher's meat as often as the most pampered footman on Denmarkhill, were she so inclined. Friendly tea-drinkings occasionally enlivened the monotony of domestic life; and once in a way Mrs. Trevornock would indulge her daughter with a visit to a West-end theatre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. E. Braddon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2015-07-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781330696880
Excerpt from The Story of Barbara, Vol. 1 of 3: Her Splendid Misery and Her Gilded Cage; A Novel Matters now stand, the Author feels constrained to give prominence to the name of her heroine in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1987-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0345349571
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary
Author : Grace Mortimer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category :
ISBN : 9780483698741
Excerpt from The Two Barbaras: A Novel She turned, abashed, from his smiling gaze, and leaned over the rail of the old bridge once more. He joined her, leaning there elbow to elbow, with his breath fanning the cheek of the girl, whose heart, erring as it was, as yet was unsullied as heart of cradled infant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Amelie Rives
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2015-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781331713449
Excerpt from Barbara Dering, Vol. 1 of 2 More than two years had passed since Dering left Rosemary. There was a soft, gold-gray mist over everything; the tulip-tree leaves glimmered a pale yellow against the dark evergreens on the lawn; the Indian-corn, standing in great tasselled shocks, gave forth a dry rustle now and then as a field-creature scampered through it; a crow could be heard sometimes very faintly, as though drowsing on its listless, slow-moving wings; but, except for such noises, the warm autumn day was silent and the air still. Barbara was walking through the cornfield, reading as she went. Her figure, in its dimly-tinted gown, looked thinner. She was pale, and her mouth had a tired bend at its fine corners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
