Author: Robyn Donald
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474073212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
By Royal Command
Royals: Wed To The Prince: By Royal Command / The Princess and the Outlaw / The Prince's Secret Bride
Author: Robyn Donald
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474073212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
By Royal Command
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474073212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
By Royal Command
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
Author: JaHyun Kim Haboush
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life Shakespearean in its pathos, drama, and grandeur. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this first complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily preoccupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. Reissued nearly twenty years after its initial publication with a new foreword by Dorothy Ko, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and an extraordinary example of autobiography in the premodern era.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
John Bull
The New World
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Outlaw of Torn
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
ISBN: 1537808494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain Father Superior in a very ancient monastery in Europe. He let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed and musty manuscripts and I came across this. It is very interesting -- partially since it is a bit of hitherto unrecorded history, but principally from the fact that it records the story of a most remarkable revenge and the adventurous life of its innocent victim -- Richard, the lost prince of England. In the retelling of it I have left out most of the history. What interested me was the unique character about whom the tale revolves -- the visored horseman who -- but let us wait until we get to him. It all happened in the thirteenth century, and while it was happening it shook England from north to south and from east to west; and reached across the channel and shook France...
Publisher:
ISBN: 1537808494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being the relationship of my wife's cousin to a certain Father Superior in a very ancient monastery in Europe. He let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed and musty manuscripts and I came across this. It is very interesting -- partially since it is a bit of hitherto unrecorded history, but principally from the fact that it records the story of a most remarkable revenge and the adventurous life of its innocent victim -- Richard, the lost prince of England. In the retelling of it I have left out most of the history. What interested me was the unique character about whom the tale revolves -- the visored horseman who -- but let us wait until we get to him. It all happened in the thirteenth century, and while it was happening it shook England from north to south and from east to west; and reached across the channel and shook France...
Twilight of the Habsburgs
Author: Alan Palmer
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871136657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871136657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Son of Hamas
Author: Mosab Hassan Yousef
Publisher: Authentic
ISBN: 9781850789857
Category : Christian converts from Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, unveils the truth about his own role in the organization, and explains his dangerous decision to make his newfound Christian faith public.
Publisher: Authentic
ISBN: 9781850789857
Category : Christian converts from Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, unveils the truth about his own role in the organization, and explains his dangerous decision to make his newfound Christian faith public.
Royals
Author: ROBYN DONALD
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489255354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
By Royal Command – Robyn Donald The only way Lauren can escape from the war–torn island of Sant'Rosa is to marry Guy, a sexy stranger, in a fake ceremony. But reunited with Guy under safer conditions, Lauren is overwhelmed by their mutual feelings of explosive desire! And he has news for her: their marriage vows are legal! What's more, he's really a prince, and Lauren is obliged to marry him again – by royal command! The Princess And The Outlaw – Leanne Banks The shy, studious one among the royal Devereaux family of Chantaine, Pippa wasn't known for controversy. So her brief romance with Texas tycoon Nic Lafitte had to end. Too bad Pippa couldn't get the darkly handsome, modern–day outlaw out of her mind! Given their generations–long family feud, Nic was stunned when the sweet princess secretly defied the Devereaux clan to fulfil a Lafitte's dying wish. Nic tried to resist her – until a night of passion led to a little Devereaux–Lafitte! Now the royal and the Texan have to somehow bring two worlds – and two families – together... The Prince's Secret Bride – Raye Morgan Prince Nico Montenevada can't walk by when he sees pregnant Marisa DuBonnet needs his help. She's confused and lost and clearly has no place to go, so he sweeps her back to his royal palace. Until Marisa came along, normal life seemed shallow and frivolous. Now it feels as though Nico has something to live for. But with his royal realm torn apart by war and rebellion, can he afford to fall in love with this pregnant stranger?
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489255354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
By Royal Command – Robyn Donald The only way Lauren can escape from the war–torn island of Sant'Rosa is to marry Guy, a sexy stranger, in a fake ceremony. But reunited with Guy under safer conditions, Lauren is overwhelmed by their mutual feelings of explosive desire! And he has news for her: their marriage vows are legal! What's more, he's really a prince, and Lauren is obliged to marry him again – by royal command! The Princess And The Outlaw – Leanne Banks The shy, studious one among the royal Devereaux family of Chantaine, Pippa wasn't known for controversy. So her brief romance with Texas tycoon Nic Lafitte had to end. Too bad Pippa couldn't get the darkly handsome, modern–day outlaw out of her mind! Given their generations–long family feud, Nic was stunned when the sweet princess secretly defied the Devereaux clan to fulfil a Lafitte's dying wish. Nic tried to resist her – until a night of passion led to a little Devereaux–Lafitte! Now the royal and the Texan have to somehow bring two worlds – and two families – together... The Prince's Secret Bride – Raye Morgan Prince Nico Montenevada can't walk by when he sees pregnant Marisa DuBonnet needs his help. She's confused and lost and clearly has no place to go, so he sweeps her back to his royal palace. Until Marisa came along, normal life seemed shallow and frivolous. Now it feels as though Nico has something to live for. But with his royal realm torn apart by war and rebellion, can he afford to fall in love with this pregnant stranger?