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Author: G. P. R. James Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530962549 Category : Languages : en Pages : 90
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All was bustle round the door of the little inn of Montigny; twenty or thirty horses employed the hands and attention of as many grooms and stable-boys; and while they put their heads together, and talked over the perfections or imperfections of the beasts they held, sixty or seventy respectable citizens, the great cloth merchant, and the wholesale dealer in millstones, the cure of the little town, the bailiff of the high-justiciary, the ironmonger, the grocer, and the butcher, stood in knots on the outside, discussing more important particulars than the appearance of the horses. The sign of the inn was the Croix de Lorraine, and the name of the Duke of Guise was frequently heard mingling in the conversation of the people round the door."
Author: G. P. R. James Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530107889 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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G.P.R. James was a 19th century British novelist who wrote a number of popular works in his time. Some of his works, particularly romances, are still read today.
Author: G. P. R. James Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523971558 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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G.P.R. James was a 19th century British novelist who wrote a number of popular works in his time. Some of his works, particularly romances, are still read today.
Author: G. P. R. James Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523971480 Category : Languages : en Pages : 108
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G.P.R. James was a 19th century British novelist who wrote a number of popular works in his time. Some of his works, particularly romances, are still read today.
Author: G. P. R. James Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 610
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This historical novel features the turbulent final days and the death of Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550-1588), who was a key figure in the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots. In 1576 he founded the Catholic League to prevent the heir, King Henry of Navarre, head of the Huguenot movement, from succeeding to the French throne. A powerful opponent of the queen mother, Catherine de' Medici, he was assassinated by the bodyguards of her son, King Henry III in the conflict known as The War of the Three Henrys (1587-1589). The novel focuses, however, on the events from 12th of May, 1588, the famous day of the barricades, when the Duke of Guise had the crown of France within his grasp, and did not close his hand. Some have called it weakness, some virtue, some moderation, some indecision; and in fact, whatever view is taken of it, there are points in which it is opposed to the general character of the Duke, giving to these events a certain layer of mystery.
Author: George Payne Rainsford James Publisher: Library of Alexandria ISBN: 1465527311 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 732
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It was as dark and sombre a morning, the sky was as gloomy, the earth as dry and parched, as earth, sky, and morning ever appear in the most northern climates. A dull grey expanse of leaden cloud shut out the blue heaven, a hard black frost pinched up the ground, the blades of grass stood stiff and rugged on the frozen soil, and vague grey mists lay in all the hollows of the ground. The forests, the manifold forests that then spread over the fair land of France, showed nothing but bare branches, except where here and there the yoke-elm or tenacious beech retained in patches its red and withered leaves, while beneath the trees again, the ground was thickly carpeted with the fallen honours of the past summer, mingled with hoar frost and thin snow. A chilliness more piercing than mere frost pervaded the air; and the aspect of the whole scene was cheerless and melancholy. Such was the aspect of the day, though the scene was in the south of France, at a spot which we shall leave for the present nameless, when at about seven o'clock in the morning--an hour in which, at that period of the year, the sun's rays are weak and powerless--a tall, strong, florid man of about four-and-thirty years of age was seen upon the edge of a wide wood walking along cautiously step by step, carefully bending down his eyes upon the withered leaves that strewed his path, as if he had dropped something of value which he sought to find. The wood, as we have said, was extensive, covering several miles of undulating ground, broken by rocks and dingles, and interspersed by more than one piece of water. It contained various kinds of tree, as well as various sorts of soil; but at the spot of which we now speak the wood was low and thin, gradually increasing in volume as it rose along the slope of the adjacent hill, till it grew into a tangled thicket, from which rose a number of tall trees, waving their grey branches sadly in the wintry air. On a distant eminence, rising far above the wood itself, might be seen towers, and turrets, and pinnacles, the abode of some of the lords of the land; and at the end of a long glade, up which the man we have just mentioned was cautiously stealing, as we have described, appeared a little cottage with one or two curious outbuildings, not usually found attached to the abodes of the agricultural population.
Author: G. P. R. James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: G. P. R. James
Author: G. P. R. James
Author: G. P. R. James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: G. P. R. James
Author: George Payne Rainsford James
Author: G. P. R. James