The King S Bed

Author : Don Jordan,Michael Walsh
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405528894

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The King's Bed by Don Jordan,Michael Walsh Pdf

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, colouring the way the nation was run. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favourites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor. The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.

Author : Don Jordan,Michael Walsh
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405528894

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The King's Bed by Don Jordan,Michael Walsh Pdf

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, colouring the way the nation was run. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favourites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor. The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.

Author : Taylor Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504039017

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Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are sent to an orphanage. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St. Agnes’s Orphanage and make a home for them all. Joseph’s journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Even as misfortune continues to follow the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph takes his revenge against the uncaring world that once took everything from him. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory’s political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States. Spanning seventy years, Captains and the Kings, which was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries, is Taylor Caldwell’s masterpiece about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, and the grit, ambition, fortitude, and sheer hubris it takes for an immigrant to survive and thrive in a dynamic new land.

Author : Don Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681771113

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The King's Bed by Don Jordan Pdf

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom.Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, coloring the way the nation was run.The authors take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favorites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor.The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.

Author : Shahla Ujayli
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477322307

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A Bed for the King's Daughter by Shahla Ujayli Pdf

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women’s agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In “The Memoir of Cinderella’s Shoes,” Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In “Tell Me About Surrealism,” an art history professor’s writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in “Merry Christmas,” the realities of apartheid interfere with one family’s celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates—with brevity and inventiveness—themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it.

Author : Theo Pauline Nestor
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307346773

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How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed by Theo Pauline Nestor Pdf

“I feel like I’ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,” writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce. Less than an hour after confronting her husband over his massive gambling losses, Theo banishes him from their home forever. With two young daughters to support and her life as a stay-at-home mother at an abrupt end, Nestor finds herself slipping from “middle-class grace” as she attends a court-ordered custody class, stumbles through job interviews, and–much to her surprise–falls in love once again. As Theo rebuilds her life and recovers her sense of self, she’s forced to confront her own family’s legacy of divorce. “I’m from a long line of stock market speculators, artists of unmarketable talents, and alcoholics,” writes Nestor. “The higher, harder road is not our road. We move, we divorce, we drink, or we disappear.” Nestor’s journey takes her deep into her family’s past, to a tiny village in Mexico, where she discovers the truth about how her sister ended up living in a convent there after their parents divorced in the early sixties. What she learns ultimately brings her closer to understanding her own divorce and its impact on her two daughters. “I knew from experience that for children divorce means half the world is constantly eclipsed. When you’re with one parent, the other must always slip out of view,” Nestor writes. Funny, openhearted, and brave, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed will speak to anyone who has passed through the halls of divorce court or risked tenderness after loss. It marks the debut of an enchanting, deeply truthful voice.

Author : Caitlin Crews
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369744982

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Wedding Night in the King's Bed by Caitlin Crews Pdf

A guarded king will be unraveled in this royal romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews! His Majesty requires an untouched bride… But can duty ever become love? Virginal Helene Archibald knows she’s destined for an arranged marriage. So, when her father declares she’ll be given to a king in a loveless union, she accepts it as fate. But Helene is unprepared for King Gianluca San Felice, and the wildfire that awakens at the sight of him! She is undone by the craving that consumes them on their wedding night. But outside the royal bedchamber, Gianluca remains ice-cold—dare Helene believe their chemistry is enough to bring this powerful ruler to his knees? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Author : Snorri Sturluson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Iceland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010719826

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The Stories of the Kings of Norway Called the Round World (Heimskringla) by Snorri Sturluson Pdf

Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338049650

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The King's Bed by Margaret Campbell Barnes Pdf

This historical fiction novel is set just as Henry VIII is about to take the throne from King Richard III. The central characters are a girl called Tansy who lives in Leicester and a young man called Dickson Broome with whom she eventually forms a relationship. Some of the most tumultuous events in British history are about to take place, and they form the backdrop to this story.

Author : Milton Spenser Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030510082

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Kings to Esther by Milton Spenser Terry Pdf

Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547114253

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The King's Bed by Margaret Campbell Barnes Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The King's Bed" by Margaret Campbell Barnes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046765645

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First Book of the Kings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eckart Frahm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118325247

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A Companion to Assyria by Eckart Frahm Pdf

A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history

Author : Rolf Myller
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307567710

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How Big Is a Foot? by Rolf Myller Pdf

The perfect book to understand standing six feet apart! Follow the story about the King who wants to give the Queen something special for her birthday. The Queen has everything, everything except a bed. The trouble is that no one in the Kingdom knows the answer to a very important question: How Big is a Bed? because beds at the time had not yet been invented. The Queen's birthday is only a few days away. How can they figure out what size the bed should be? How can the people figure out how to measure? Readers will learn it's not that difficult and that everyone can learn to do it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026549216

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The Accented Bible ... All Proper Names Accented. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Taylor by Anonim Pdf