Author: Charles ReadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Cloister and the Hearth
Author: Charles ReadePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The cloister and the hearth Volume 2
Author: Charles ReadePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291424709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The second part of this ever-appealing romance of the European Middle Ages, complete with travel ( those inns ... and even more, those women... !), as fresh now as in those past centuries. At once sensitive and bawdy, steeped in the atmosphere of its time, this. Is a tale for all ages
The Cloister and the Hearth Volume 2
Author: Charles ReadePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727832419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Cloister and the Hearth Volume 2 By Charles Reade There are many who think this the greatest of all historical novels, and it is certain that there are few better. It is not a story so much as a vast and varied transcript of life. It is also a delightful romance, and Gerard and Margaret are among the immortals of fiction.
The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 2 of 4
Author: Charles ReadePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331294603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 2 of 4: A Tale of the Middle Ages Things good and evil balance themselves in a remarkable manner; and almost universally. The steel bow attached to the arbalister's back, and carried above his head, had sunk him. that very steel bow, owing to that very position, could not escape Gerard's hands, one of which grasped it, and the other went between the bow and the cord, which was as good. The next moment, Denys by means of his crossbow, was hoisted with so eager a jerk that half his body bobbed up out of water. 'Now, grip me not! grip me not!' cried Gerard, in mortal terror of that fatal mistake. 'Pas si bete, ' gurgled Denys. Seeing the sort of stuff he had to deal with, Gerard was hopeful and calm directly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
What Makes This Book So Great
Author: Jo WaltonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466844094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Time of Gifts
Author: Patrick Leigh FermorPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175174
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
The Cloister and the Hearth
Author: Charles ReadePublisher:
ISBN: 9781293423226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Foul Play
Author: Charles ReadeThe Cloister and the Hearth
Author: Charles ReadePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781340926090
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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Author: Charles Reade