Peccadillo At The Palace

Author : Kari Bovée
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943006915

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Peccadillo at the Palace by Kari Bovée Pdf

It’s 1887, and Annie and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show are invited to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebration in London, England. But their long journey across the Atlantic takes a turn for the worst when the queen’s royal servant ends up dead and Annie’s husband, Frank Butler, falls suspiciously ill. Annie soon discovers that the two events are connected—and may possibly be precursors to an assassination attempt on the queen. In London, it becomes clear there is rampant unrest in the queen’s kingdom—the Irish Fenian Brotherhood, as well as embittered English subjects, are teeming in the streets. But amid the chaos, even while she prepares for the show, Annie is determined to find the truth. With the help of a friend and reporter, Emma Wilson, the renowned poet Oscar Wilde, and the famous socialite Lillie Langtry, Annie sets out to hunt down the queen’s enemies—and find out why they want to kill England’s most beloved monarch.

Author : W. Sydney Robinson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849547710

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The Last Victorians by W. Sydney Robinson Pdf

Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the longreigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds - or worse. Yet not everyone in the twentieth century agreed with Strachey and his followers. To a handful of eccentrics born during Victoria's reign, the nineteenth century remained the greatest era in human history: a time of high culture for the wealthy, 'improvement' for the poor, and enlightened imperial rule for the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire. They were, to friend and foe alike, 'the last Victorians' - relics of a bygone civilisation. In this daring group biography, W. Sydney Robinson explores the extraordinary lives of four of these Victorian survivors: the 'Puritan Home Secretary', William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932); the 'Gloomy Dean' of St Paul's Cathedral, W. R. Inge (1860-1954); the belligerent founder of the BBC, John Reith (1889-1971), and the ultra-patriotic popular historian and journalist Arthur Bryant (1899- 1985). While revealing their manifold foibles and eccentricities, Robinson argues that these figures were truly great - even in error.

Author : Frank Moorhouse
Publisher : Hutchinson
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Adultery
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024221744

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Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse Pdf

Sequel to "Grand days".

Author : Egerton Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089059505

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Ballads & Legends of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101072858804

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Ballads & Legends of Cheshire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803133430

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Alaric's Gold by Robert Fortune Pdf

Alaric’s Gold is full of suspense that will leave readers wondering what’s reality and what’s fiction.

Author : C.C. Benison
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553574784

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Death at Windsor Castle by C.C. Benison Pdf

Housemaid Jane Bee's summer duties run to dusting the props for a week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, the Queen's favorite haunt. But the Investiture of the new Knights of the Garter ends up combining pomp with a extremely unpleasant circumstance.... Mild-mannered art curator Roger Pettibon is found dead, a ceremonial sword in his back and a Royal Garter around his knee. The police are quick to arrest moody Court painter Victor Fabiani, at work on a portrait of the regal face that launched a billion postage stamps. But Fabiani's confession--despite its story of art forgery and blackmail--doesn't ring true to Jane. Nor to Her Majesty, who dispatches her on a discreet inquiry among the cream of society gathered for the Ascot races. And, as Jane traces the twisty lineage of more than one family, Windsor's ancient battlements witness a second death--and their second ordeal in five years, by fire and water....

Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351166355

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Eunuchs and Castrati by Katherine Crawford Pdf

Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment. Ranging from Greco-Roman times to the twenty-first century, Katherine Crawford brings together travel accounts, diplomatic records, and fictional sources, as well as existing scholarship, to demonstrate how early modern interlocutors reacted to and depicted castrates. She reveals how medicine and law operated to maintain the privileges of bodily integrity and created and extended prejudice against those without it. In consequence, castrates were constructed as gender deviant, disabled social subjects and demarcated as inferior. Early modern cultural loci then reinforced these perceptions, encouraging an othering of castrates in public contexts. These extensive, almost obsessive accounts of appearance, social propensities, and gender characteristics of castrated men reveal the historical lineages of sexual stigma and hostility towards gender non-normative and physically impaired persons. For Crawford, they are the roots of sexual and physical prejudices that remain embedded in the western experience today.

Author : W. Stebbing
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664597946

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Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. Stebbing Pdf

Discover the life and works of Sir Walter Raleigh, the renowned English scholar, poet, and author, in this captivating biography. This book offers a comprehensive look at Raleigh's life and legacy, providing insight into the mind of one of the most important figures in English literature.

Author : David L. Lightner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496809865

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Winnie Lightner by David L. Lightner Pdf

Winnie Lightner (1899-1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored. In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation. She went on to star in seven other Warner Bros. features. In the best of them, she was the comic epitome of a strident feminist, dominating men and gleefully spurning conventional gender norms and moral values. So tough was she, the studio billed her as "the tomboy of the talkies." When the Great Depression rendered moviegoers hostile toward feminism, Warner Bros. tried to craft a new image of her as glamorous and sexy. Executives assigned her contradictory roles in which she was empowered in the workplace but submissive to her male partner at home. The new persona flopped at the box office, and Lightner's stardom ended. In four final movies, she played supporting roles as the loudmouthed roommate and best friend of actresses Loretta Young, Joan Crawford, and Mona Barrie. Following her retirement in 1934, Lightner faded into obscurity. Many of her films were damaged or even lost entirely. At long last, this biography gives Winnie Lightner the recognition she deserves as a notable figure in film history, in women's history, and in the history of show business.

Author : A.J. Carmichael
Publisher : AJ CARMICHAEL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Minoan, Rise and Fall by A.J. Carmichael Pdf

In the Bronze Age Crete was ruled by the Minoans. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Minoan Crete was transformed from myth to archeological reality. The Minoans and their language are still subject to considerable controversy, even over such fundamental details as their identity. Almost everything we know is derived from physical remains, fleshed out somewhat by writings from Classical Greece almost one thousand years after Knossos was destroyed since no written historical records exist from that time. However, the theories about the Minoans can be unified into some consensus, as we shall see below. Fresh discoveries will change this viewpoint radically in the future. The Minoan Civilization flourished in the Middle Bronze Age on the island of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean from c. 2700 BC to c. 1450 BC (following the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods). The Minoans were a trading civilization that traded throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, as far north as Britain and as far east as Mesopotamia. The Minoans imported a wide variety of raw materials and manufactured goods from other civilizations, and then they exported their own products, including olive oil, wine, pottery, furniture, perfumes, and jewellery. According to archaeological evidence, the two palaces on the island of Crete at Knossos and Phaistos are considered the largest surviving palaces from antiquity; both were built around 1900 BCE.

Author : G. A. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400845323

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Finding Oneself in the Other by G. A. Cohen Pdf

This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume brings together some of Cohen's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays, many of them previously unpublished. Rich in first-person narration, insight, and humor, these pieces vividly demonstrate why Thomas Nagel described Cohen as a "wonderful raconteur.? The nonphilosophical highlight of the book is Cohen's remarkable account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. Other biographical pieces include his valedictory lecture at Oxford, in which he describes his philosophical development and offers his impressions of other philosophers, and "Isaiah's Marx, and Mine," a tribute to his mentor Isaiah Berlin. Other essays address such topics as the truth in "small-c conservatism," who can and can't condemn terrorists, and the essence of bullshit. A recurring theme is finding completion in relation to the world of other human beings. Engaging, perceptive, and empathetic, these writings reveal a more personal side of one of the most influential philosophers of our time.

Author : Martin R. Delany
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080706419X

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Blake by Martin R. Delany Pdf

Delaney's hero is a West Indian slave who travels throughout the South advocating revolution, and later becomes the general of a black insurrectory fore in Cuba. Blake hopes that, with rebellion in Cuba and the expulsion of all Americans, Cuba's model as a self-governed black state will ultimately precipitate the downfall of slavery in the United States. Focusing on the political and social issues of the 1850s – slavery as an institution, Cuba as the prime interest of Southern expansionists, the practicality of militant slave revolution, and the possibilities of collective action – Blake is one of the most revealing novels of its period.

Author : Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473223530

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The Ultimate Discworld Companion by Terry Pratchett,Stephen Briggs Pdf

The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby. The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as it slowly swims through space. It is also the global publishing phenomenon with sales of over 70 million books worldwide (but who's counting?). There's an awful lot of Discworld to keep track of. But fear not! Help is at hand. For the very first time, everything (and we mean everything) you could possibly want to know has been crammed into one place. If you need a handy guide to locales from Ankh-Morpork to Zemphis . . . If you can't tell your Achmed the Mads from your Jack Zweiblumens . . . If your life depends on distinguishing between the Agatean Empire and the Zoons . . . Look no further. Updated and perfected by Stephen Briggs, the man behind The Ultimate Discworld Companion's predecessor Turtle Recall, this is your ultimate guide to Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved fantasy world.

Author : Somadeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z295820906

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“The” Katha Sarit Sagara Or Ocean of the Streams of Story by Somadeva Pdf