Wanda McCaddon
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uses Royal Archives sources to examine how the untimely death of Prince Albert plunged both his queen and the nation into a profound state of grief that reshaped the British monarchy.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern. An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot,...
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent “practicing history.”
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens's marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft,...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today. On a house tour like no other-one that delightfully explicates the very idea of "home"-you'll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing, learn the connection between wall-hung religious tapestries...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to a quiet retirement in Cornwall after a lifetime of international travel, widow Eleanor is inadvertently drawn into a murder investigation involving her wrongly accused artist friend and her detective niece.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 303 pages : genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how Isabella Robinson recorded sexual fantasies in her private diary, which was discovered and read by her husband, who petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
xi, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome-Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him-have profoundly impressed themselves upon the world. They bore the perilous responsibility of governing an empire comparable in its gigantic magnitude and diversity to the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1980s. It is a matter of perennial concern to investigate how the potentates who wield such vast might, and the men...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In March, 1279, Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the journey at Woodstock Manor. And there one life begins as Queen Eleanor labors to birth a new daughter, and one draws to an end when apoplexy fells Baron Adam Wynethorpe. Hotfoot to the baron's deathbed comes his elder son, Hugh, a veteran of Edward I's Crusades, who can't shake off the battle...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 760 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Russka is the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. From a single riverside village situated at one of the country's geographic crossroads, Russia's Slav peasant origins are influenced by the Greco-Iranian, Khazar, Jewish, and Mongol invasions. Unified by this one place, the many cultures blend to form a rich and varied tapestry.
Rutherfurd's grand saga is as multifaceted as Russia itself:...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Through his in-depth analysis, Michael Grant introduces us to the political, military, cultural, social, economic, and religious life of the times that were the building blocks of what we now call the Western World. He creates a vivid panorama of the Greco-Roman world by bringing together the most dramatic events on record from its beginnings in 1,000 BC to the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. The Founders of the Western World...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted find the missing family in time. The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees...
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 447 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity," is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of Death, our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. One adventure involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When young ghostwriter Jenni Clark agrees to pen the memoir of an elderly farm owner, she expects nothing more than the ordinary, quiet tale of a life well-lived by a woman well-loved. But Klara's life has been far from quiet; and as she narrates her story of a family ripped apart by life in the internment camps of Java during World War II, Jenni finds herself forced to face her own ghosts, products of a long-buried, devastating childhood secret....