wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Great Level : Nominiert: East Anglian Book Award for Fiction 2018
ISBN: 9780701183196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A rich and compelling portrait of a tragic love affair in a threatened world
A rich and compelling portrait of a tragic love affair in a threatened world
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A Royal Affair: George III and his Troublesome Siblings
ISBN: 9781529115420 / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation.
The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his...
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66,76 zł |
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832
ISBN: 9780099477112 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sisters Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox were great-grandchildren of Charles II, and their extraordinary lives spanned the period from 1740 to 1832. Caroline eloped with an ambitious politician, Henry Fox; her son, Charles James Fox, was the most celebrated opposition politician of his century. Emily first married the senior peer of Ireland, but after having 19 children she scandalized society by marrying their humble Scottish tutor. Louisa and Sarah led equally tumultuous lives.
Sisters Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox were great-grandchildren of Charles II, and their extraordinary lives spanned the period from 1740 to...
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77,04 zł |
The Great Level
ISBN: 9780099526438 / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A 'magical, haunting' (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country.
A 'magical, haunting' (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work...
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51,35 zł |
Citizen Lord
ISBN: 9780099732112 / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Back home he was elect ed to the Irish Parliament and became a member of the Irish opposition His political interests became increasingly radical, and he was eventually embroiled in the Irish rebellion, dying in prison.
Back home he was elect ed to the Irish Parliament and became a member of the Irish opposition His political interests became increasingly radical, and...
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87,64 zł |
Tides of War
ISBN: 9780099526421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An epic romantic novel of the Peninsular War from the acclaimed historian, author of Aristocrats.
A brilliant debut by a wonderful historian, Tides of War is a sweeping, romantic, panoramic historical novel, set in Regency London and in Spain during the Peninsular War, which shows again the narrative talent of Aristocrats, as well as Tillyards's genius for period, atmosphere, character and description. At its centre stands Harriet, the young, outspoken heroine, on the threshold of adult life. She is newly married, but her soldier husband, James, is about to set off to join... An epic romantic novel of the Peninsular War from the acclaimed historian, author of Aristocrats.
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George IV (Penguin Monarchs): King in Waiting
ISBN: 9780141978857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king, first a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era and was, with Charles I, the most artisitically literate of all our kings. Stella Tillyard has not written...
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king, first a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his fat...
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66,76 zł |
Tides of War
ISBN: 9781250002815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An epic novel about love and war, set in Regency England and Spain during the Peninsular War Tides of War opens in England with the recently married, charmingly unconventional Harriet preparing to say good-bye to her husband, James, as he leaves to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain. Harriet's and James's interwoven stories of love and betrayal propel this sweeping and dramatic novel as it moves between Regency London on the cusp of modernity---a city in love with science, the machine, and money---and the shocking violence of the war in Spain. With dazzling... An epic novel about love and war, set in Regency England and Spain during the Peninsular War Tides of War opens in England with... |
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99,50 zł |