Author: Mme. Adriana Delcambre PiazziPublisher:
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Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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A Tragedy in the Imperial Harem at Constantinople
Author: Mme. Adriana Delcambre PiazziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A Tragedy in the Imperial Harem at Constantinople
Author: Leïla SazA Tragedy in the Imperial Harem at Constantinople ... Translated from the French with Notes by ... R.E. Colston
Author: Leïla HANOUM (pseud. [i.e. Adriana Piazzi.])Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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A Tragedy in the Imperial Harem at Constantinople
Author: Adriana Delcambre PiazziPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230353395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii. the "menu" of A princely breakfast. The palace of Salih-Bazar is admirably situated on the sea-shore, exactly facing the entrance of the port of Constantinople. One of its fronts look upon the road leading from Top-hane" to the palace of Dolma-Batche; another faces the sea of Marmora, and snow-covered Olympus looms in the distance like the spectre of the dead gods of paganism. On the right rises the Old Seraglio, with the cupolas of its mosks and the needles of its minarets mingled with tall cypresses; on the left, the double shores of Europe and Asia enclose the Bosphorus as far as the Black Sea; and in the centre of this gorgeous frame so marvellously sculptured by nature, so richly gilded by the sun, crowds of barks, ca'iks, and white-winged vessels glide swiftly over the blue water. What a picture for a poetic soul! Blessed must be the women who dwell behind the grated windows which command a view without its equal in the world! Although not a cormorant, that privileged Bosphorus bird which makes its nest over the sculptured windows of the palace and on the capitals of its columns, the reader may penetrate into the very chamber of Her Highness Alieh-Sultana, the august mistress of Salih-Bazar. One afternoon in the month of Sapher (corresponding in that year to February), she was seated lost in thought, her idle fingers toying with the amber beads of her chaplet.1 A few slaves leaning with folded arms against the door-posts or squatting upon the Smyrna carpet dared not interrupt the silence of their haughty mistress. The winter's cold was hardly felt in this large room hung with Broussa silk and heated by a beautifully-chased brass mangal, in the shape of a vase set on a pedestal, containing glowing coals whence arose the...
A Tragedy at Constantinople
Author: Adriana Delcambre PiazziPublisher:
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Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Edges of Empire
Author: Jocelyn Hackforth-JonesPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405153067
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
A Simplified Grammar of the Japanese Language (modern Written Style)
Author: Basil Hall ChamberlainPublisher:
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Category : Japanese language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction in the Brookline Public Library
Author: Brookline Public Library (Brookline, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Author: Richard Henry Horne