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The Countess's Deadly Discovery

Author : Issy Brooke
Publisher : Issy Brooke
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Countess's Deadly Discovery written by Issy Brooke and published by Issy Brooke. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Countess of Calaway’s innocent letter of enquiry cause a murder? When the body of a young craftsman is found dead, he is surrounded by articles belonging to an ancient local family which has sunk into decline. But those valuables went missing decades ago; this isn’t a straightforward case of theft gone wrong. As Lord and Lady Calaway investigate, they discover that what was stolen goes beyond silver cigar cases and fancy boxes. Names, identities, and even a man’s wife: a whole future has been taken and the victim didn’t seem to realise it. Theodore fights for justice, because he’s on the side of right. But Adelia fights for her conscience, because as the truth unravels, she realises she may have been wrong… How do you bring about true justice when everyone is guilty of something – even the detectives? The Countess’s Deadly Discovery is the sixth book in Issy Brooke’s Victorian murder mystery series, The Discreet Investigations of Lord and Lady Calaway. If you are looking for authentic British history with a dash of humour and a traditional style, then you’ll love this new novel. Try this book now, or start with book one, Murder at Mondial Castle, for a diverting escape into a simpler past…

Blood Countess

Author : Lana Popovic
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356438
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Blood Countess written by Lana Popovic and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lush and bloody historical thriller” based on the infamous real-life inspiration for Countess Dracula, a Hungarian noblewoman turned serial killer.(Kirkus Reviews) In sixteenth-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend, confident and lover. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess’s spell—and the Countess t”akes full advantage. Isolated from her former friends, family, and fiancé, Anna realizes she’s not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel Elizabeth. Then come the murders, and Anna knows it’s only a matter of time before the Blood Countess turns on her, too. “Popovic balances lush, romantic language with gruesome imagery in this tale of innocence lost. Readers will likely be inspired to do actual research into Lady Bathory’s murderous misdeeds.” —Booklist “Popovic also touches on how a patriarchal society can drive women to extremes without letting the truly terrifying Bathory, or Anna, off the hook for their own actions.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hand to fans of dark historical fiction and powerful female characters.” —School Library Journal

The Countess

Author : Rebecca Johns
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307588467
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Countess written by Rebecca Johns and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the “Blood Countess” history’s first and perhaps worst female serial killer? Or did her accusers create a violent fiction in order to remove this beautiful, intelligent, ambitious foe from the male-dominated world of Hungarian politics? In 1611, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a powerful Hungarian noblewoman, stood helpless as masons walled her inside her castle tower, dooming her to spend her final years in solitary confinement. Her crime: the gruesome murders of dozens of female servants, mostly young girls tortured to death for displeasing their ruthless mistress. Her opponents painted her as a bloodthirsty škrata—a witch—a portrayal that would expand to grotesque proportions through the centuries. In this riveting dramatization of Erzsébet Báthory’s life, the countess tells her story in her own words, writing to her only son—a final reckoning from his mother in an attempt to reveal the truth behind her downfall. Countess Báthory describes her upbringing in one of the most powerful noble houses in Hungary, recounting in loving detail her devotion to her parents and siblings as well as the heartbreak of losing her father at a young age. She soon discovers the price of being a woman in sixteenth-century Hungary as her mother arranges her marriage to Ferenc Nádasdy, a union made with the cold calculation of a financial transaction. Young Erzsébet knows she has no choice but to accept this marriage even as she laments its loveless nature and ultimately turns to the illicit affections of another man. Seemingly resigned to a marriage of convenience and a life of surreptitious pleasure, the countess surprises even herself as she ignites a marital spark with Ferenc through the most unromantic of acts: the violent punishment of an insolent female servant. The event shows Ferenc that his wife is no trophy but a strong, determined woman more than capable of managing their vast estates during Ferenc’s extensive military campaigns against the Turks. Her naked assertion of power accomplishes what her famed beauty could not: capturing the love of her husband. The countess embraces this new role of loving wife and mother, doing everything she can to expand her husband’s power and secure her family’s future. But a darker side surfaces as Countess Báthory’s demand for virtue, obedience, and, above all, respect from her servants takes a sinister turn. What emerges is not only a disturbing, unflinching portrait of the deeds that gave Báthory the moniker “Blood Countess,” but an intimate look at the woman who became a monster.

Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de La Motte

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de la Motte. Including the Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. Translated from the French. To which is Added, a Narrative of Her Escape to London, as Stated by Herself. Also Memoirs of Her Sister, Under the Character of Marianne

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Author : Countess Jeanne de La Motte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de la Motte. Including the Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. Translated from the French. To which is Added, a Narrative of Her Escape to London, as Stated by Herself. Also Memoirs of Her Sister, Under the Character of Marianne written by Countess Jeanne de La Motte and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rejected Princesses

Author : Jason Porath
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062405381
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Rejected Princesses written by Jason Porath and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make history. Good thing these women are far from well behaved . . . Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty pink princess" stereotype portrayed in movies, and on endless toys, books, and tutus on its head, paying homage instead to an awesome collection of strong, fierce, and yes, sometimes weird, women: warrior queens, soldiers, villains, spies, revolutionaries, and more who refused to behave and meekly accept their place. An entertaining mix of biography, imagery, and humor written in a fresh, young, and riotous voice, this thoroughly researched exploration salutes these awesome women drawn from both historical and fantastical realms, including real life, literature, mythology, and folklore. Each profile features an eye-catching image of both heroic and villainous women in command from across history and around the world, from a princess-cum-pirate in fifth century Denmark, to a rebel preacher in 1630s Boston, to a bloodthirsty Hungarian countess, and a former prostitute who commanded a fleet of more than 70,000 men on China’s seas.

The British Mercury Or Annals of History, Politics, Manners, Literature, Arts Etc. of the British Empire

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Some Account of the English Stage, from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830

Author : John Genest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Oakcliffe Hall; or the Fatal effects of feudal quarrels. A tale of the fifteenth century. [By Sarah Wilkinson].

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Oakcliffe Hall; or the Fatal effects of feudal quarrels. A tale of the fifteenth century. [By Sarah Wilkinson]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Account of the English Stage

Author : John Genest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Some Account of the English Stage written by John Genest and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The double doubt. (cont.). The tragedy of the Truenfels. The prisoner of the Pfalz. Countess Kunigund. Heidelberg Castle and its legends. The legend of the wolf's brun. The legend of Ruprecht's building

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Author : Thomas Colley Grattan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The double doubt. (cont.). The tragedy of the Truenfels. The prisoner of the Pfalz. Countess Kunigund. Heidelberg Castle and its legends. The legend of the wolf's brun. The legend of Ruprecht's building by : Thomas Colley Grattan

Download or read book The double doubt. (cont.). The tragedy of the Truenfels. The prisoner of the Pfalz. Countess Kunigund. Heidelberg Castle and its legends. The legend of the wolf's brun. The legend of Ruprecht's building written by Thomas Colley Grattan and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Beautiful Blue Death

Author : Charles Finch
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429955333
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Beautiful Blue Death written by Charles Finch and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Finch's debut mystery A Beautiful Blue Death introduces a wonderfully appealing gentleman detective in Victorian London who investigates crime as a diversion from his life of leisure. Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by the motive for the girl's death. When another body turns up during the London season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence Smith? Or was it something else entirely? And can Lenox find the answer before the killer strikes again—this time, disturbingly close to home?

Serial Killers: Butchers & Cannibals

Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848847378
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Serial Killers: Butchers & Cannibals written by Nigel Blundell and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning. From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers whose first impulse was to take a life. For some, it was never enough. The real thrill came after their victims were dead. In this shocking anthology, true crime journalist Nigel Blundell brings together more than two dozen chilling profiles of the world’s most unforgettable fiends, including: Ed Gein, the Plainfield necrophile and inspiration for The Silence of the Lambs; Andrei Chikatilo, the “Rostov Ripper”, whose uncontrollable hunger was satiated by more that fifty victims; Dennis Nilsen, whose London house of horrors so overflowed with body parts that they blocked the drains; Germany’s Fritz Haarmann who killed and consumed more than two dozen men, then peddled the left-over meat on the black market; Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory whose lust for the blood of virgins—a body count estimated to be in the hundreds—has branded her the most prolific female serial killer in world history; and many more human monsters whose appetites are still the stuff of nightmares.

W. Appleby's general catalogue of new & second-hand books

Author : W. Appleby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Staging "the Mysterious Mother"

Author : Cynthia E. Roman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300263651
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Staging "the Mysterious Mother" written by Cynthia E. Roman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition Horace Walpole's five-act tragedy The Mysterious Mother (1768), a sensational tale of incest and intrigue, was initially circulated only among the author's friends. Walpole never permitted it to be performed during his lifetime except as a private theatrical. He described his play as a "delicious entertainment for the closet" and claimed that he "did not think it would do for the stage." Yet the essays in this volume trace a history of private readings, amateur theatricals, and even early public performances, demonstrating that the play was read and performed more than Walpole's protests suggest. Exploring a wide variety of topics--including the play's crypto-Catholicism, its treatments of incest, guilt, motherhood, orphans, and scientific spectacle, and the complex relations between print and performance--the essays demonstrate the rich relevance of The Mysterious Mother to current critical discussions. The volume includes the proceedings of a mini-conference hosted at Yale University in 2018 on the occasion of a staged reading of the play. Also included are the director's reflections, an abridged script, a facsimile of Walpole's own copy of the full-length play, and reproductions of the illustrations he commissioned from Lady Diana Beauclerk.

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Author : Kostas Boyiopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154126
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 written by Kostas Boyiopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature, Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914, while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted, darker, perverted, other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics, the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers, and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly, John Keats’s works are a particular focus, in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity, isolation, addiction, fragmentation, representation, romance, and voyeurism, as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism.

Legends of the Rhine ... To which is Added: Lays and Legends of the Rhine by I. R. Planché

Author : Thomas Colley GRATTAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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