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Author : John Freely
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781784535353
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Inside the Seraglio written by John Freely and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Viking, 1999.
Author : Janet Wallach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385490467
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Seraglio written by Janet Wallach and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel "Seraglio. At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. Blonde and blue-eyed, the genteel young girl is a valuable commodity, and she is soon placed in service in the Seraglio - the Ottoman Sultan's private world - in Topkapi Palace. As Dubucq, renamed Nakshidil ("embroidered on the heart") discovers the erotic secrets that win favor of kings and deftly learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Catholic faith. Overtime Nakshidil becomes the intimate of several powerful sultans: wife to one, lover and confidante to another, and adoptive mother to a third. Her life often treads the tenuous line between sumptuous pleasures and mere survival until her final years when she is awarded control of the harem as the valide, mother of the Sultan. With phenomenal research and a mesmerizing voice, Janet Wallach provides a powerful and passionate glimpse of East-West history through one woman's distinctly European eyes.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Seraglio written by James Merrill and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Carey
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504065484
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Steel Seraglio written by Mike Carey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A confident One Thousand and One Nights for our present . . . Furious pop entertainment—full of sex, passion, violence, and magic.” —Slant magazine This is the story of the legendary City of Women, told through the tales of those who founded it, championed it, and made it flourish. When the city of Bessa undergoes a violent coup, its lazy, laissez-faire ruler, Bokhari Al-Bokhari, is replaced by the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. With little use for the pleasures of the flesh, Hakkim sends his predecessor’s 365 concubines to a neighboring sultan as a gift. But when the new sultan discovers the concubines are harboring Al-Bokhari’s youngest son—a child who might grow up to challenge his rule—he repents of his mercy and sends his soldiers to slaughter the seraglio down to the last woman and child. What he doesn’t count on is a concubine trained in the art of murder—or the courage and fortitude of the women who will rise up with her to forge their own city out of the unforgiving desert. It’s an undertaking beset with challenges: hunger and thirst, Hakkim’s relentless hate, and the struggle to make a place for themselves in a world determined to underestimate and undermine them. Through a mosaic of voices and tales, we learn of the women’s miraculous rise, their time of prosperity—and how they carried with them the seed of their own destruction. “A thrilling tale.” —Publishers Weekly “A masterful, engaging and utterly fascinating story by three wonderful writers.” —SFRevu.com “The Steel Seraglio brings its alternate world of struggle, politics and magic very much to life.” —Locus
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728709
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Inside the Seraglio written by John Freely and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the House of Osman, the imperial dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire for more than seven centuries, an empire that once stretched from central Europe to North Africa and from Persia to the Adriatic. The capital of this empire was Istanbul, ancient Byzantium, a city that stands astride Europe and Asia on the Bosphorus. And it was in the great palace of Topkapi Sarayi that the sultans of this empire ruled. Inside the Seraglio - a classic of Ottoman history - takes us behind the gilded doors of the Topkapi and into the heart of the palace: the harem, where the sultan would surround himself with his wives, concubines, eunuchs, pages, dwarfs and mutes and where all the tempestuous events of empire were so often played out. This is the history of a remarkable palace in all its colour and opulence and the story of its influence on a great empire.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009199
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Mozart's the Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail) written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton D. Fisher's extremely popular Mini Guides feature Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of the opera.
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457482144
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), An Opera in Three Acts, K. 384 written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Classical era.
Author : N. M. Penzer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486147584
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Harem written by N. M. Penzer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey features photographs and floor plans of Topkapi Palace as well as profiles of the harem's women, their eunuch guards, and court manners, dress, and politics. 42 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Janet Wallach
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307744361
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Desert Queen written by Janet Wallach and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. With a new Afterword "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston Globe Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements—a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.
Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488366
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Life after the Harem written by Betül İpşirli Argit and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Abduction from the Seraglio written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alev Lytle Croutier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789212064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Harem written by Alev Lytle Croutier and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages. “I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.” Drawing on a host of firsthand accounts and memoirs, as well as her own family history, Croutier explores life in the world’s harems, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, focusing on the fabled Seraglio of Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for them all. We enter the slave markets and the lavish boudoirs of the sultanas; we witness the daily routines of the odalisques, and of the eunuchs who guarded the harem. Here, too, we learn of the labyrinthine political scheming among the sultan’s wives, his favorites, and the valide sultana—the sultan’s mother—whose power could eclipse that of the sultan himself. There were the harems of the sultans and the pashas, but there were also “middle-class” harems, the households in which ordinary men and women lived out ordinary—albeit polygamous—lives. Croutier reveals their marital customs, child-rearing practices, and superstitions. Finally, she shows how this Eastern institution invaded the European imagination—in the form of decoration, costume, and art—and how Western ideas, in turn, finally eroded a system that had seemed eternal. Juxtaposing a rich array of illustrations—Western paintings, Turkish and Persian miniatures, family photographs, and even film stills—Croutier demystifies the Western erotic fantasy of “the world behind the veil.” This revised and updated 25th anniversary edition of Harem includes a new introduction by the author, revisiting her subject in light of recent events in Turkey, and the world.
Author : Dorothy Dunnett
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776236X
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Pawn in Frankincense written by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Francis Crawford of Lymond desperately searches the Ottoman empire for his kidnapped child. Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is the political order of three continents, for Lymond's child is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement, and murder. In that game's final move, which is played inside the harem of the Topkapi palace, Lymond will come face to face with his most implacable enemy and the dreadful ambiguities of his own nature. With a Foreword by the author.
Author : Michel (Prince of Greece)
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060151669
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Sultana written by Michel (Prince of Greece) and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Abduction from the Seraglio written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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