Author: Daniel François Esprit AuberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Koh-i-Noor
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635570778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.
The Crown Diamond
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 9780887349942
Category : Private investigators
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Holmes' pursuit of a brilliant, deadly jewel theif leads to a chilling confrontation between hunter and hunted! Not a pastiche, not a parody, not an homage, but a genuine Doyle stage script!
The Queen's Diamonds
Author: Hugh RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781905686384
Category : Crown jewels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to Elizabeth II.
The Crown Jewels
Author: Anna KeayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500289822
Category : Crown jewels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.
Kohinoor
Author: William DalrymplePublisher: Juggernaut Books
ISBN: 9386228084
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This riveting tale of the Kohinoor, the worldÕs most coveted gem, unearths fascinating new information as it moves from the Mughal court to Persia to Afghanistan; from Maharaja Ranjit Singh's durbar in Punjab to the Queen of England's Crown. A thrilling tale, full of violence, drama and intrigue.
The Crown Diamonds
Author: Daniel François Esprit AuberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Favorite Opera, in Three Acts Entitled, The Crown Diamonds ... Adapted to the English Stage by Mr. Tully, the Words by E. Fitzball, Etc. [Based on “Les Diamans de la Couronne” by A. E. Scribe and J. H. Vernoy de Saint Georges.]
![The Favorite Opera, in Three Acts Entitled, The Crown Diamonds ... Adapted to the English Stage by Mr. Tully, the Words by E. Fitzball, Etc. [Based on “Les Diamans de la Couronne” by A. E. Scribe and J. H. Vernoy de Saint Georges.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/e9pZAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Edward FitzballThe new comic opera, in three acts, of the Crown Diamonds, etc. Based on "Les Diamans de la couronne," by A. E. Scribe and J. H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Author: The Diamond
Author: Julie BaumgoldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743274547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Diamond is a brilliant, dazzling historical novel about a famous diamond—one of the biggest in the world—that passed from the hands of William Pitt’s grandfather to the French kings and Napoleon, linking many of the most famous personalities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and serving as the centerpiece for a novel in every way as fascinating as Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover or Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Rich with historical detail, characters, and nonstop drama, the story centers on the famous Regent diamond—once the largest and most beautiful diamond in the world—which was discovered in India in the late seventeenth century and bought by the governor of the East India Company, a cunning nabob, trader, and ex-pirate named Thomas Pitt. His son brought it to London, where a Jewish diamond-cutter of genius took two years to fashion it into one of the world's greatest gems. A glittering cast of characters parades through The Diamond: a mesmerizing Napoleon and the devoted Las Cases, stuck on Saint Helena with their memories; Louis XIV and his brother, the dissolute Monsieur; Madame, the German princess who married Monsieur; the Scottish financier John Law and Saint-Simon, who sold Pitt's diamond to Madame's depraved son; the depressed Louis XV; and Madame de Pompadour. Here too are the families, the Pitts in England and the Bonapartes in France; the men of Saint Helena; nobles and thieves; Indian diamond merchants and financiers—nearly everyone of interest and importance from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Written with enormous verve and ambition, The Diamond is a treat, a plum pudding of a novel filled with one delicious, funny, disgraceful episode after another. It is grand history and even grander fiction—a towering work of imagination, research, and narrative skill.
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