Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442453443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Dark myths, medieval secrets, intrigue, and romance populate the pages of the first-ever teen series from #1 bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Italy, 1453. Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous--and accused of heresy. Cast out of his religious order for using the new science to question old superstitious beliefs, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate evil and danger in its many forms, and strange occurrences across Europe, in this year--the end of days. Isolde is a seventeen-year-old girl shut up in a nunnery so she can't inherit any of her father's estate. As the nuns walk in their sleep and see strange visions, Isolde is accused of witchcraft--and Luca is sent to investigate her, but finds himself plotting her escape. Despite their vows, despite themselves, love grows between Luca and Isolde as they travel across Europe with their faithful companions, Freize and Ishraq. The four young people encounter werewolves, alchemists, witches, and death-dancers as they head toward a real-life historical figure who holds the boundaries of Christendom and the secrets of the Order of the Dragon. The first in a series, this epic and richly detailed drama is grounded in historical communities and their mythic beliefs. It includes a medieval map of Europe that will track their journey; and the interior will include relevant decorative elements as well as an interior line illustration. And look for a QR code that links to a note from the author with additional, detailed information about the setting and the history that informed the writing. With Philippa Gregory's trademark touch, this novel deftly brings the past--and its salacious scandals--vividly and disturbingly to life.
Author: Damian Atkinson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527512940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The scholar Charles Whibley was born in 1859 and died in 1930, straddling the end of the Victorian age, the new century, and the Great War and its aftermath. After completing his studies at Cambridge, his early journalistic experiences were with the critic, poet and editor William Ernest Henley, known for his mentoring of young writers on the Scots, later National Observer, and Whibley was to a great extent the mainstay of the journal. After his grounding with Henley, he moved to Paris for a few years as the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. Here, he became friends with Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé and Marcel Schwob, and married Whistler’s sister-in-law Ethel Birnie Philip in July 1895. While in Paris he wrote for Blackwood’s Magazine and was an advisor for Fisher Unwin’s Library of Literary History. Returning to England, Whibley became friends with Lord Northcliffe, Lady Cynthia Asquith, and later T. S. Eliot. The friendship with William Blackwood resulted in Whibley’s monthly “Musings without Method” from February 1900 to December 1929, a contribution which Eliot called “one of the best sustained pieces of literary journalism that I know in recent times”. Northcliffe was a close friend, as was Sir Frederick Macmillan of the publishing firm. From 1906 until October 1920, Whibley contributed a Saturday column in Northcliffe’s Daily Mail, and for many years was a reader for Macmillans. His friendship and infatuation with Cynthia Asquith lives strongly in his letters, although there is hardly any mention of his wife Ethel. Much of his literary work was with biographical essays of literary and political persons. After the death of Ethel in 1920, Whibley visited Brazil sending back reports to Cynthia Asquith. Whibley contributed to Eliot’s Criterion and also helped Eliot to acquire British citizenship. Apart from his continued journalism, Whibley worked as a consultant for the Royal Literary Fund later becoming a committee member. In 1927, he married his Goddaughter Philippa Raleigh. Whibley’s death in France in March 1930 robbed the literary world of his biography of W.E. Henley. Many of his letters deal with his literary work with the Macmillans, Blackwood’s Magazine, and his friendship with Cynthia Asquith, and in some letters to Northcliffe he parades his Tory views. He was a supporter of the Great War, though little appears in his letters.
Author: Mary Anne Everett Green
Publisher: London : H. Colburn
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Mary Anne Everett Green
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Anne Graham Estern
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780553155662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Peter and Jessica Blake are fascinated by an antique doll house at an auction. They know that the house and the tiny doll family inside, the Picolinis, must be very special - especially when a strange magician tries frantically to outbid their father. When they get the dollhouse home they discover that the Picolini dolls are more magical than they thought - they are alive! Peter and Jessica find themselves on an exciting and dangerous adventure in search of lost treasure - while stalked by the mysterious evil magician.
Author: Anne Graham Estern
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780553157710
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Peter and Jessica discover that the empty house across the street may be haunted, and it's connected to their own home by an underground tunnel.
Author: Kathryn Talalay
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195113934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Showing how Schuyler's classical music career in America was cut short by racism, this biography is a stimulating addition to the record of race relations in America, as well as a monument to an extraordinary woman.
Author: Clara Emma Griswold Cheney
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Category : Epistolary fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Author: John Morley
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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