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Book Synopsis A Sultan's Ransom (Mills & Boon Intrigue) (Shadow Soldiers, Book 3) by : Loreth Anne White
Download or read book A Sultan's Ransom (Mills & Boon Intrigue) (Shadow Soldiers, Book 3) written by Loreth Anne White and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An heir denied his throne. A deadly virus without an antidote. One woman who holds the key to saving the world.
Book Synopsis The Lady of a Sultan by : Linda Rae Sande
Download or read book The Lady of a Sultan written by Linda Rae Sande and published by Twisted Teacup Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured by pirates. Sold to a sultan. This is not how Charlotte expected to spend her holiday. A dowager duchess recently out of mourning, Charlotte is on her way to a holiday in Greece when pirates overtake her ship and enslave her. When they attempt to sell her to a Turkish sultan, she's sure she can convince the ruler to let her go. She's a matron and mother to two grown sons—and he has a harem and nineteen children. Whatever could he want with her? Three nights, apparently. For two decades, Sultan Ziyaeddin I has ruled his dwindling empire from several palaces in Constantinople, but the one on the edge of the Aegean Sea holds his most precious memories—and a precocious daughter who is overeducated for most men. Determined to introduce reforms, Ziyaeddin is far more enlightened than the sultans who came before him. Enlightened and alone. Convincing others of his vision for the empire has been a challenge. Bored with his harem, he's intrigued by the English woman who is unceremoniously dumped at his feet by pirates. With her skills as a duchess and desire for a daughter, will she be the companion his daughter needs—and the answer to his loneliness?
Book Synopsis The Sultan's Renegades by : Tobias P. Graf
Download or read book The Sultan's Renegades written by Tobias P. Graf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for the sultan. Unsurprisingly, therefore, renegades have attracted considerable attention from historians of Europe as well as students of European literature. Until very recently, however, Ottomanists have been surprisingly silent on the presence of Christian-European converts in the Ottoman military-administrative elite. The Sultan's Renegades inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus on their exceptionality, towards a qualified appreciation of their place in the Ottoman imperial enterprise and the Empire's relations with its neighbours in Christian Europe. Drawing heavily on Central European sources, this study highlights the deep political, religious, and cultural entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe beyond the Mediterranean Basin as the 'shared world' par excellence. The existence of such trans-imperial subjects is not only symptomatic of the Empire's ability to attract and integrate people of a great diversity of backgrounds, it also illustrates the extent to which the Ottomans participated in processes of religious polarization usually considered typical of Christian Europe in this period. Nevertheless, Christian Europeans remained ambivalent about those they dismissed as apostates and traitors, frequently relying on them for support in the pursuit of familial and political interests.
Book Synopsis The Black Sultan by : L. Ron Hubbard
Download or read book The Black Sultan written by L. Ron Hubbard and published by Galaxy Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Eddie Moran, a slightly disreputable American cooling his heels in French Morocco. And don’t be surprised if the young Cary Grant comes to mind, because Eddie’s as smooth as they come, one step ahead of the game...and of the police. Who’s after him? Just about everybody. What’s he done? A bit of everything—smuggler, revolutionary, whatever crooked little scheme will pay for his next meal or next drink. But Eddie’s latest caper is one he may not be able to escape...even if he wants to. Stumbling into a fight between a couple of Berber chieftains, Eddie lands in a prison run by The Black Sultan. He may be a captive of the Sultan, but he’s captivated by a stunning young woman the Sultan means to add to his harem. For her, Eddie might just go straight—if he can get them out of this hellhole alive. When The Black Sultan was originally published, Hubbard said that writers too often “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword.... These things still exist, undimmed, losing no luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking for more. Also includes the adventure story, “Escape for Three,” in which a bold trio of French Legionnaires come to the rescue of their great leader—only to decide he may not be so great after all. “Action, strong characters, suspense, snappy dialogue, and titillating romance.” —Publishers Weekly
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Book Synopsis On the Sultan's Service by : Douglas S. Brookes
Download or read book On the Sultan's Service written by Douglas S. Brookes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne olacak? 'What is to become of things?'" Translated into English for the first time, this memoir provides fascinating first-hand insight into the personalities, intrigues, and inner workings of the Ottoman palace in its final decades. Written by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, who was First Secretary to Sultan Mehmed V and would go on to be one of Turkey's most famous novelists, On the Sultan's Service makes available to English readers the remarkable account of life and work in the Ottoman palace chancery—the public, "business" side of the palace—in its final incarnation. We learn of the court's new role under this second-to-last Sultan in post-Revolution Turkey. No longer exercising political power, the palace negotiated the minefields between political factions, sought ways to unite the empire in the face of sharpening nationalist aspirations, and faced with a kind of shocked despondency the opening salvos of the wars that were to overwhelm the country. Uşaklıgil includes interviews with the Imperial family and descriptions of royal nuptials, the palaces and its visitors, and the crises that shook the court. He delivers an insightful and moving portrait of Mehmed V, the elderly gentleman who reigned over the Ottoman Empire through both Balkan Wars and World War I.
Download or read book Sultan's band march written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sultan and His People by : C. Oscanyan
Download or read book The Sultan and His People written by C. Oscanyan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultan and His People is a valuable and essential work on all the significant aspects of the Ottoman Empire. The author, Christopher Oscanyan, founded the first Armenian-language newspaper in Turkey. He later became the personal secretary to the Sultan's son-in-law. This work contains plates and in-text illustrations, making it a bestseller, selling 16,000 copies in just four months. Oscanyan described several elements of the empire thoroughly, including their origin, religion, economy, education, medicine, the condition of women, and many mo
Book Synopsis The Red Sultan by : James MacLaren Cobban Cobban
Download or read book The Red Sultan written by James MacLaren Cobban Cobban and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sultan and his People by : C. Oscanyan
Download or read book The Sultan and his People written by C. Oscanyan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis The Sultan's Daughter by : Ann Chamberlin
Download or read book The Sultan's Daughter written by Ann Chamberlin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esmikhan, the Sultan's daughter, has so far been unsuccessful in her attempts at bearing sons and becomes ensnared in a plot by Sofia, a former Venetian slave, despite the best efforts of another devoted slave to free her.
Book Synopsis The Sultan’s Sister by : Vanessa Del Rey Fontana
Download or read book The Sultan’s Sister written by Vanessa Del Rey Fontana and published by Vanessa DR Fontana. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samia lived in a palace in the midst of luxury but her life was as miserable as possible. Her condition was a private detention, she could not take a step without the consent of her brother, the mighty sultan. She lived day and night surrounded by maidservants, dressed in luxury, possessed many jewels, but never had freedom, never decided on her fate and was never questioned. Her greatest desire was to live a great passion.
Book Synopsis The Sultan's Harem by : Colin Falconer
Download or read book The Sultan's Harem written by Colin Falconer and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed When We Were Gods comes a dramatic, unforgettable novel of cruelty and passion, set in the great Harem of the Ottoman Empire. In Constantinople there is only one ruler: Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Lord of Lords of this World, Possessor of Men's Necks, Allah's Deputy, absolute ruler of the mighty Ottoman Empire. And at the heart of his palace is the Sultan's vast Harem, the domain of hundreds of scented, pampered women--some wives, some concubines, some merely slaves. Among them is Gulbehar, the Sultan's submissive favorite and mother of his heir; Julia, the daughter of an Italian lord, kidnapped when she attempted to flee Venice with her lover; and Hurrem, a Tartar girl from the Russian steppes, sold into slavery. All three women are beautiful, but Hurrem is the most dangerous--ruthless in her desire to rule the Harem and, ultimately, Suleyman himself. Endlessly manipulative and clever, she carefully arranges the downfall of her rivals and endears herself to the Sultan, who places her at the center of the Empire's power. It is his obsession with Hurrem--not his enemies--that in the end costs Suleyman his allies, his sons, and finally his dynasty. Bestselling author Colin Falconer offers an irresistible glimpse into a world of intrigue, sensuality, and violence, where an empire can be controlled not by the might of its king but by the women hidden behind the Harem walls.
Book Synopsis The Sultan and the Powers (1896) by : Malcolm MacColl
Download or read book The Sultan and the Powers (1896) written by Malcolm MacColl and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis A Sultana for the Sultan by : Martin Baker
Download or read book A Sultana for the Sultan written by Martin Baker and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refusing to fight the invading king until a sultana sweet enough for his taste can be found, the sultan entertains the king instead.
Book Synopsis Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman Borders by : Géza Dávid
Download or read book Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman Borders written by Géza Dávid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is an ambitious attempt to give a comprehensive picture of trade in captives along the European borders of the Ottoman Empire, especially in Central Europe. It brings together a great deal of so far unpublished archival material and thus integrates a new area into the research.
Book Synopsis The Sultan of Byzantium by : Selcuk Altun
Download or read book The Sultan of Byzantium written by Selcuk Altun and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople in 1453, Emperor Constantine XI was killed, his body never found. Legend has it that he escaped in a Genoese ship, cheating certain death at the hands of the Turks and earning himself the title of Immortal Emperor. Five centuries after his disappearance, three mysterious men contact a young professor living in Istanbul. Members of a secret sect, they have guarded the Immortal Emperor's will for generations. They tell him that he is the next Byzantine emperor and that in order to take possession of his fortune he must carry out his ancestor's last wishes. The professor embarks on a dangerous journey, taking him to the heart of a mystery of epic historical significance. The Sultan of Byzantium is a symbiosis of story and history and a homage to Byzantine civilisation.
