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Book Synopsis The Grand Sophy by : Georgette Heyer
Download or read book The Grand Sophy written by Georgette Heyer and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Grand Sophy by : Georgette Heyer
Download or read book The Grand Sophy written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader favorite from the Queen of Regency Romance, The Grand Sophy is an utterly hilarious and completely endearing story of a charming young heroine and the outrageous lengths she goes to solve everyone else's problems, and the surprises in store for everyone! When Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on diplomatic business, he parks his only daughter, Sophy, with his sister in Berkeley Square. Forward, bold, and out-spoken, Sophy sweeps in and immediately takes the ton by storm. Upon her arrival, Sophy can see that her cousins are in a sad tangle: Ceclia is in love with a poet, Charles is engaged to a dour bluestocking, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. They all need her help and it's providential that Sophy arrives when she does. The Georgette Heyer Signature Collection is a fresh celebration of an author who has charmed tens of millions of readers with her delightful sense of humor and unique take on Regency romance. Includes fun and fascinating bonus content—a glossary of Regency slang, a Reading Group Guide, and an Afterword by official biographer Jennifer Kloester sharing insights into what Georgette herself thought of The Grand Sophy and what was going on in her life as she was writing. What reviewers are saying about The Grand Sophy: "The Grand Sophy was an exciting, charming read. The characters grab you and don't let go." —Anna's Book Blog "Fun, engaging and hilarious, I cannot recommend it more highly. Sophy is a devilishly fine girl." — AustenProse "The Grand Sophy is a very entertaining Regency romance with wonderfully eccentric characters and a very humorous plot."—Once Upon a Romance "Georgette Heyer is the Queen of the Regency Romance. Long may she reign!" —New York Times bestselling author LAUREN WILLIG
Author :Darius Alexander Spieth Publisher :Associated University Presse ISBN 13 :9780874139570 Total Pages :240 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (395 download)
Book Synopsis Napoleon's Sorcerers by : Darius Alexander Spieth
Download or read book Napoleon's Sorcerers written by Darius Alexander Spieth and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Napoleon's rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took place in the temple structures of ancient Egypt. This book looks at the cultural environment and intellectual background of one such pseudo-Egyptian secret society, the Sacred Order of the Sophisians.
Book Synopsis The Whispers of Cities by : John-Paul A. Ghobrial
Download or read book The Whispers of Cities written by John-Paul A. Ghobrial and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth century. Inspired perhaps by the globalised world in which they write, scholars have emphasised how the circulation of people, objects, and ideas linked the distant reaches of the early modern world. Yet for all the advocates of such a 'connected history', we are only beginning to make sense of what global connectedness meant in practice in the lives of ordinary people. To this end, The Whispers of Cities explores interactions between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the kaleidoscope of communication. It does so by focusing on how information flows linked Istanbul, London, and Paris in the late seventeenth century. Because individuals were at the heart of communication, the book offers a micro-historical reading of the experiences of Sir William Trumbull, English ambassador to Istanbul from 1687 to 1692. It follows Trumbull as he was transformed from a civil lawyer and state official in London to a European notable at the heart of Ottoman social networks in Istanbul. In this way, The Whispers of Cities reveals how information flows between Istanbul, London, and Paris were rooted in the personal encounters that took place between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday communication. At the intersection of global history and the history of communication, therefore, the author argues that worlds of information tied Europeans to their Ottoman counterparts long before the age of modernisation, as news, stories, and even fictions transcended linguistic and confessional boundaries and connected people across Europe and the Mediterranean world. What emerges here is a picture of globalization that is as much about networks, flows, and circulation as it is about the imperfections, asymmetries, and unevenness of connectedness in the early modern world.
Book Synopsis The Turn of the Soul by : Lieke Stelling
Download or read book The Turn of the Soul written by Lieke Stelling and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe’s most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning.
Book Synopsis The Dream of Absolutism by : Hall Bjørnstad
Download or read book The Dream of Absolutism written by Hall Bjørnstad and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV. What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do? In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall Bjørnstad argues that the exuberance of Louis XIV’s reign was not top-down propaganda in any modern sense, but rather a dream dreamt collectively, by king, court, image-makers, and nation alike. Bjørnstad explores this dream through a sustained close analysis of a corpus of absolutist artifacts, ranging from Charles Le Brun’s famous paintings in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles via the king’s secret Mémoires to two little-known particularly extravagant verbal and textual celebrations of the king. The dream of absolutism, Bjørnstad concludes, lives at the intersection of politics and aesthetics. It is the carrier of a force that emerges as a glorious image; a participatory emotional reality that requires reality to conform to it. It is a dream, finally, that still shapes our collective political imaginary today.
Book Synopsis Don Juan of Persia by : G. Le Strange
Download or read book Don Juan of Persia written by G. Le Strange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1926. Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars waged by the Persians during the sixteenth century considerably add to modern day knowledge of the history of the period. The book describes the Safavi rule as first established, and the system of government set up in the prime of Sháh 'Abbás, as well as being an account of the long journey from Isfahán to Valladolid. Guy Le Strange's comprehensive introduction places the book in its historical context, as well as providing important information on how the book was written. Many of the inaccuracies of the original text are corrected in translation with references and notes added to the index to guide the reader.
Download or read book The Nonesuch written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers continue to be charmed by bestselling author Georgette Heyer, the Queen of Regency Romance, and her flashes of wit, wonderful dialogue, and delightful intrigue. An impetuous flight... Tiffany Wield's bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf" at twenty-eight, Ancilla Trent strives to be a calming influence on her tempestuous charge, but then Tiffany runs off to London alone and Ancilla is faced with a devastating scandal. A gallant rescue... Sir Waldo Hawkridge, confirmed bachelor and one of the wealthiest men in London, comes instantly to the aid of the intrepid Ancilla to stop Tiffany's flight, and in the process discovers that it's never too late for the first bloom of love. Praise for Georgette Heyer: "A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds."—Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph "Triumphantly good...Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."—India Knight, Sunday Telegraph
Book Synopsis A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical by : Pierre Bayle
Download or read book A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical written by Pierre Bayle and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MLN. written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MLN pioneered the introduction of contemporary continental criticism into American scholarship. Critical studies in the modern languages--Italian, Hispanic, German, French--and recent work in comparative literature are the basis for articles and notes in MLN. Four single-language issues and one comparative literature issue are published each year.
Book Synopsis The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French by : Abel Boyer
Download or read book The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences by : Susanne Lettow
Download or read book Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences written by Susanne Lettow and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race and gender. Neither the life sciences nor philosophy had fixed disciplinary boundaries at this point in history. Kant, Hegel, and Schelling weighed in on these questions alongside scientists such as Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Karl Ernst von Baer. The essays in this volume chart the development of modern gender polarizations and a naturalized, scientific understanding of gender and race that absorbed and legitimized cultural assumptions about difference and hierarchy.
Book Synopsis Bombay and Western India by : James Douglas
Download or read book Bombay and Western India written by James Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Compleat History of Thamas Kouli Kan, at Present Called Schah Nadir, Sovereign of Persia ... The Second Edition ... to which are Added, an Appendix by the Translator, and an Alphabetical Index; a New Map ... and a ... Head of Kouli Kan, Etc by :
Download or read book The Compleat History of Thamas Kouli Kan, at Present Called Schah Nadir, Sovereign of Persia ... The Second Edition ... to which are Added, an Appendix by the Translator, and an Alphabetical Index; a New Map ... and a ... Head of Kouli Kan, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History and Conquests of the Saracens by : Edward Augustus Freeman
Download or read book The History and Conquests of the Saracens written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reformations in Hungary in the Age of the Ottoman Conquest by : Pál Ács
Download or read book Reformations in Hungary in the Age of the Ottoman Conquest written by Pál Ács and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pál Ács discusses various aspects of the cultural and literary history of Hungary during the hundred years that followed the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the onset of the Reformation. The author focuses on the special Ottoman context of the Hungarian Reformation movements including the Protestant and Catholic Reformation and the spiritual reform of Erasmian intellectuals. The author argues that the Ottoman presence in Hungary could mean the co-existence of Ottoman bureaucrats and soldiers with the indigenous population. He explores the culture of occupied areas, the fascinating ways Christians came to terms with Muslim authorities, and the co-existence of Muslims and Christians. Ács treats not only the culture of the Reformation in an Ottoman context but also vice versa the Ottomans in a Protestant framework. As the studies show, the culture of the early modern Hungarian Reformation is extremely manifold and multi-layered. Historical documents such as theological, political and literary works and pieces of art formed an interpretive, unified whole in the self-representation of the era. Two interlinked and unifying ideas define this diversity: on the one hand the idea of European-ness, i.e. the idea of strong ties to a Christian Europe, and on the other the concept of Reformation itself. Despite its constant ideological fragmentation, the Reformation sought universalism in all its branches. As Ács shows, it was re-formatio in the original sense of the word, i.e. restoration, an attempt to restore a bygone perfection imagined to be ideal.
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