Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times). Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel’s journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.
Restoration
Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times). Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel’s journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times). Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he’s called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel’s journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Author: Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375238977X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375238977X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. (Complete)
Author: Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465572899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465572899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
Book Description
The Archaeological Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Jamestown Brides
Author: Jennifer Potter
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190942630
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Jennifer Potter explores the lives of the fifty-six women who volunteered to leave their lives in England and travel to the Jamestown colony in 1621.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190942630
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Jennifer Potter explores the lives of the fifty-six women who volunteered to leave their lives in England and travel to the Jamestown colony in 1621.
Heart of Mid-Lothian. Bride of Lammermoor. Legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe. Monastery. Abbott
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jan-Marie Knights
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398117668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The author of The Tudor Socialite and Plantagenet Socialite looks at the life and movements of Mary, Queen of Scots, with diary-style entries offering a fascinating insight into the life of history's most tragic queen.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398117668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The author of The Tudor Socialite and Plantagenet Socialite looks at the life and movements of Mary, Queen of Scots, with diary-style entries offering a fascinating insight into the life of history's most tragic queen.
Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland
Author: John Mackay Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borders Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Borders Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Elder Edda and Ancient Scandinavian Drama
Author: Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edda Sæmundar
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edda Sæmundar
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Brides and Bridals
Author: John Cordy Jeaffreson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description