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The Murder of Lord Shaftesbury

Author : Michael Litchfield
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178418991X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Murder of Lord Shaftesbury written by Michael Litchfield and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scandalous debauchery of the playboy tenth Earl of Shaftesbury sent seismic shock waves through the British aristocracy. One of the richest men in the country and master of a Downton Abbey-style dynasty, he abandoned his loyal wife and two sons for a depraved life of drunken orgies, cocaine and bed-hopping with Continental whores. His riotous romp plumbed the depths when he divorced the mother of his children to marry a foreign prostitute, installing her as the new, grand Countess of Shaftesbury, making her the female figurehead of an historic family revered for centuries for its probity and charity. Incredibly, he flirted with more prostitutes and set about divorcing his whore-countess in order that another of his stable of swingers could acquire the ancient and noble title. But ugly fate caught up with him first. After being reported missing, his skeletal remains were found several months later among household rubbish in what had once been a beauty spot just outside Cannes, on the ritzy French Riviera. The Countess and her psychopath brother were convicted of the premeditated murder, committed in a desperate attempt to retain the titled status and a lion's share of the inheritance before the Earl had changed his will. Hollywood superstars and a reigning monarch were even cited at the trial. But the full, tawdry story has never been told - until now. People privy to the Earl's darkest secrets have been tracked down and for the first time have filled in the vital gaps that were never revealed at the trial or have ever been published before. In this meticulously researched book, the author has unearthed truths beyond the most warped imagination.

Murder Of Lord Shaftesbury,the

Author : Michael Litchfield
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786060930
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Murder Of Lord Shaftesbury,the written by Michael Litchfield and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scandalous debauchery of the playboy tenth Earl of Shaftesbury sent seismic shock waves through the British aristocracy. One of the richest men in the country, he abandoned his loyal wife and two sons for a depraved life of drunken orgies, cocaine and bed-hopping in the South of France. His riotous romp plumbed the depths when he divorced the mother of his children to marry a foreign prostitute, whom he treated lavishly. Within two years, however, he was planning to divorce her to install another from his stable of swingers as Countess and chatelaine of his Dorset mansion and estates. But ugly fate caught up with him. After being reported missing in November 2004, his skeletal remains were found several months later among household rubbish in what had once been a beauty spot on the ritzy French Riviera. The Countess and her psychopath brother were convicted of the premeditated murder, committed in a desperate attempt to retain the titled status and a lion's share of the inheritance before the Earl had changed his will. The full, tawdry story has never been told - until now. People privy to the Earl's darkest secrets have been tracked down and have filled in vital gaps never revealed or published before. In this meticulously researched book, the author has unearthed truths beyond the most warped imagination. This is the shocking true account of how an ancient and distinguished aristocratic family found its reputation blackened almost beyond repair.

The Rebirth of an English Country House

Author : The Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847863204
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Rebirth of an English Country House written by The Earl of Shaftesbury and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliantly restored St. Giles House, in the idyllic Dorset countryside, offers high-point Georgian architecture and interiors that bridge many historical styles. The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life, transforming exquisite spaces that honor the past while being suited to twenty-first-century living. English country-house splendor, through the hands of some of the world’s top artisans and craftspeople, returns to the house in the form of re-created wallpapers, customized paints, revived furniture from the Georgian and Victorian periods, reworked antique Brussels tapestries, restored plasterwork and textiles, and a complete overhaul of the landscape, with its sunken garden, woodlands, avenue of beeches, lake, and shell-encrusted grotto. With stories of noteworthy architecture, beautiful interiors, and centuriesof a single family’s involvement in British and world history, this book will appeal to devotees of country living, the aristocratic life, historic houses, and English interior design.

The Bloodless Boy

Author : Robert J. Lloyd
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199402
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Bloodless Boy written by Robert J. Lloyd and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best New Historical Novel of 2021 "Potent... fast-paced..." - The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully imagined and wonderfully written . . . Superb!" -- Lee Child Part Wolf Hall, part The Name of the Rose, a riveting new literary thriller set in Restoration London, with a cast of real historic figures, set against the actual historic events and intrigues of the returned king and his court … The City of London, 1678. New Year’s Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria, and rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound. When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered. Meanwhile, that same morning Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, blows his brains out, and a disgraced Earl is released from the Tower of London, bent on revenge against the King, Charles II. Wary of the political hornet’s nest they are walking into – and using scientific evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth – Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, and why his blood was taken. The Bloodless Boy is an absorbing literary thriller that introduces two new indelible heroes to historical crime fiction. It is also a powerfully atmospheric recreation of the darkest corners of Restoration London, where the Court and the underworld seem to merge, even as the light of scientific inquiry is starting to emerge …

The Pillars of the Earth

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101442190
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Pillars of the Earth written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.

The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury

Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury written by Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Moralists

Author : Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book British Moralists written by Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Oliver Twist

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1840464704
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Real Oliver Twist written by John Waller and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.

Ethics 101

Author : Brian Boone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1507204949
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Ethics 101 written by Brian Boone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics. Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the history of moral principles that dictate human behavior. Unlike traditional textbooks that overwhelm, this easy-to-read guide presents the key concepts of ethics in fun, straightforward lessons and exercises featuring only the most important facts, theories, and ideas. Ethics 101 includes unique, accessible elements such as: -Explanations of the major moral philosophies including utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and eastern philosophers including Avicenna, Buddha, and Confucius. -Classic thought exercises including the trolley problem, the sorites paradox, and agency theory -Unique profiles of the greatest characters in moral philosophy -An explanation of modern applied ethics in bioethics, business ethics, political ethics, professional ethics, organizational ethics, and social ethics From Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre and utilitarianism to antirealism, Ethics 101 is jam-packed with enlightening information that you can’t get anywhere else!

The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820

Author : Rebecca Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210996
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820 written by Rebecca Bullard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the important position that the genre occupies within the literary and political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of British, French and American literature, as well as political and intellectual history, this new volume of essays demonstrates for the first time the extent of secret history's interaction with different literary traditions, including epic poetry, Restoration drama, periodicals, and slave narratives. It reveals secret history's impact on authors, readers, and the book trade in England, France, and America throughout the long eighteenth century. In doing so, it offers a case study for approaching questions of genre at moments when political and cultural shifts put strain on traditional generic categories.

The First Earl of Shaftesbury

Author : Kenneth Harold Dobson Haley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The First Earl of Shaftesbury written by Kenneth Harold Dobson Haley and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Official Baronage of England: Pembroke-Zetland

Author : James Edmund Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Baronage of England: Pembroke-Zetland written by James Edmund Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury

Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury written by Edwin Hodder and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.

Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. written by Edwin Hodder and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

Author : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1726 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Child from the Sea

Author : Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161970837X
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Child from the Sea written by Elizabeth Goudge and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy—a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background—a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.

The Popish Plot

Author : John Philipps Kenyon
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842121689
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Popish Plot written by John Philipps Kenyon and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2000 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1678, against a backdrop of paranoiac fear of Catholicism, Titus Oates and his followers succeeded in convincing both Parliament and the public of a Jesuit and Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and overthrow the Protestant establishment. As a result, hundreds of Catholics suffered imprisonment and 24 were executed. Here is the background of that plot, its development, and its long-term repercussions. "With the technical mastery of a seasoned professional...he retells in vivid detail an extraordinary tale of human credulity, knavery, and folly."--The Times.