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'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno **'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' J……続きを見る

Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award “A stunning accomplishment…As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U.S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and sta……続きを見る

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Don't Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: • Anne of Green Gables • Anne of Avonlea • Anne of the Island……続きを見る

discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Don't Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: • Anne……続きを見る

This collection includes all the great novels and stories written after the turmoil, the trauma and the heroism experienced during the American Civil War: The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) Th……続きを見る

A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was conce……続きを見る

Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization. In this riveting and insightful cultural history, Luc……続きを見る

The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on The May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not Then heard her say it, and, indeed, were but barely aware of The exi……続きを見る

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the wood……続きを見る

THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The story of Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, daredevil……続きを見る

Anne Shirley was curled up on The window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond The hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a for……続きを見る

The bestselling author of ‘Maharanis’ recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acu……続きを見る

It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back The clouds of The golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on The sand-bar, sorrowful e……続きを見る

A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe……続きを見る

Harvest is ended and summer is gone, quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from ……続きを見る

The letters of which these volumes are composed embrace the second half of journeys in the East extending over a period of two years. They attempt to be a faithful record of facts and impressions, b……続きを見る

From the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington, dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. T……続きを見る

I was born in the year of grace 1660, at the Tour d'Antin, a château not very far from the little village of Sartilly in Normandy. My father was the Chevalier d'Antin, a younger son of the Provençal……続きを見る

First Published in 1972. Forming part of the 'Russia through European Eyes' this text offers a series of letters written by Mrs Atkinson about her adventures and observation of the Kirghis female so……続きを見る

In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the inter……続きを見る

This history of the Prophet Joseph Smith, originally entitled, "The History of Mother Smith, by Herself," was written at the dictation of Lucy Smith, mother of the Prophet, by Mrs. Martha Jane Knowl……続きを見る

Sour can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 1 of 3. They call me Sour. The opposite of sweet. Shanking, stabbing, steaming, robbing, I did it all……続きを見る

From the author of ‘The Pike’ – winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction – a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake. ……続きを見る

An intense and emotive memoir of one girl’s difficult family upbringing in a Singaporean Chinese family during the Second World War. Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in 19……続きを見る

At sunset Sidney hurried to her room to take off The soiled and faded cotton dress she had worn while milking. She had milked eight cows and pumped water for The milk-cans afterward in The fag-end o……続きを見る

Beautiful was the month of October in the year of our Lord 877. That part of merrie England called Wessex was covered, in this ancient time with a vast and extensive wood. Only where the broad estua……続きを見る

One lovely spring morning long years ago in Hellas, Lydia, wife of Melas the Spartan, sat upon a stool in the court of her house, with her wool-basket beside her, spinning. She was a tall, strong-lo……続きを見る

When the Editor of Everywoman's World asked me to write "The Story of My Career," I smiled with a little touch of incredulous amusement. My career? Had I a career? Was not -- should not -- a "career……続きを見る

This new edition of Lucy Wooding’s Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of hi……続きを見る

She was a slight little maiden, of some twelve summers, and as she gave the call she danced about in the warm sunshine as though unable to keep still from the mere joy of being. Her hair was very da……続きを見る