The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman. Drawing on the largest archive of medieval correspondence relating to a single family in the UK, G...Daugiau...
It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living.Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hi...Daugiau...
Social standing is everything in Regency England, and no one knows better than Miss Caroline Morton, the daughter of a disgraced earl, now gainfully employed as a ladys companionalong with a sideline in sleuthing. But when she has a ch...Daugiau...
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary historical fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power. ...Daugiau...
Through the extraordinary life of Angelica Schuyler Church, a politically astute and socially influential figure, this story reveals how women shaped early American history through diplomacy, personal networks and a strategic presence in key revoluti...Daugiau...
From the author of the international bestseller Lie with Me comes the tale of an affair between an aristocratic teenager and a soldier, as they discover the possibilities and perils of first love--...Daugiau...
This addictive debut novel takes us into an intoxicating world of old money, privilege, and family intrigue as a young heiress must return home from a decade-long exile to face the powerful enemies arrayed against her, including those withi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9781501521218)
The Old Norse-Icelandic konungasögur (kings sagas) have been thoroughly studied for centuries for their vivid representation of Scandinavias Viking Age past, but women have frequently been overlooked in scholarly discussions of the political culture...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538770993)
Somewhere in New York City, Lata Murthy knows there is another person with her name living a much more interesting life. Thats because Lata often receives the other Latas emails: invites to Hampton soirees, fundraising appeals from the New York Ci...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593534915)
Elderly Princess Naemas attempt to honor an acclaimed author devolves into chaos as a cast of mismatched guests??including a troubled teen, a disaffected prince, and an opportunistic publisher??collide at a Berlin gala, culminating in a life-alter...Daugiau...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West III, Amor Towles
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Library of America, ISBN-13: 9781598538052)
100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: A richly illustrated deluxe edition of the American classic, with illuminating commentary by a preeminent Fitzgerald scholar The most authoritative edition ever published: Read Gatsby exactly as Fitzge...Daugiau...
In the glass city of Amoria, Naila, a mage struggling to control her dwindling powers, must navigate deadly political schemes with the help of powerful mage Haelius to uncover her true potential and prevent civil war, facing exile or worse if she fai...Daugiau...
Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be. To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in marrie...Daugiau...
A NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and la...Daugiau...
?? . . . an absolute delight . . . these are the perfect reads for a night by the fire ?? ScotsmanWar is hovering on the horizon, and Dandy Gilver wants nothing more than to keep her friends and family close. But th...Daugiau...
This book explores relationships between young femininity, sexuality and social class, in an international context characterised by much interest in young womens identities, including the possible effects of sexualised popular culture. A key obje...Daugiau...
Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on family members and their impact in the period 1500-1700. Volume 1, L...Daugiau...
Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer examines marriage as an important agent of cultural transfer, emphasizing how marriages could lead to the creation of a cosmopolitan culture, common to the elites of Europe. These essays focus on...Daugiau...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIE WITH ME It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sit...Daugiau...
In 1901 Newport, Rhode Island, reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews, arriving for a luncheon for bird protection at Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, must clip the feathers of a bo...Daugiau...
Social standing is everything in Regency Englandand no one knows better than Miss Caroline Morton, a ladys companion from a disgraced line. But when she has a chance to claim whats rightfully hers, the one obstacle in her way is a dangerous...Daugiau...
The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman. Drawing on the largest archive of medieval correspondence relating to a single family in the UK, G...Daugiau...
The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Major new TV series about the Mitfords - OUTRAGEOUS - coming soon....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Jul-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780593535059)
From the New York Times best-selling author of The WindUp Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power.Steeped...Daugiau...
