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The Flight of the Heron is set in Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, to regain the British throne for his father. It follows the story of an unlikely friendship between a young Jacobite and Highland chieftain Ewen Cameron of Ardroy, who follows Bonnie Prince Charlie in his bid for the throne, and a Government Army Officer, the Englishman Captain Keith Windham of the Royal Scots. In the battle of Culloden Captain...
| Автор | Historical Novel |
The Nuremberg trials were held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. This volume contains trial proceedings from January 1946 to21 January 1946.
| Автор | International Military Tribunal |
For the rest of the world Nicolas Steele is a blackmailer, a burglar, a crook, linked with indefinite number of criminal deeds and actions, but for his valet, Steele is merely the master. After five years of service, Bigg offers his input in his master's endeavors and exploits, presenting his side of the truth, but not leaving out numerous astonishing facts and astounding details regarding Steel's criminal record. A Gentleman's Gentleman tell the is an action adventure mystery...
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Im beschaulichen Christianssund treibt ein Heiratsschwindler sein Unwesen û und in einem Schuppen wird eine Leiche gefunden. Sommerdahl ermittelt. In einem Vorort der dänischen Kleinstadt Christianssund wird die Leiche eines jungen Mannes gefunden, der mit einem Spaten erschlagen wurde. Kommissar Flemming Torp steht vor einem Rätsel: Es gibt keine Spuren, keinen Verdächtigen und kein Motiv. Flemmings Freund Dan Sommerdahl, der sich kürzlich als Werbetexter selbstständig gemacht hat, bekommt...
| Автор | Anna Grue |
Für Lernende einer Sprache sind Sprichwörter Pflicht und Kür: Will man Gespräche und Texte wirklich in ihren Bedeutungsnuancen erschließen, so sollte man sich zumindest die geläufigsten dieser tradierten Formeln einprägen. Präsentiert werden hier rund 1000 Sprichwörter in ihrer authentischen Form, wobei heute wirklich noch Bekanntes und Geläufiges im Zentrum steht. Zu jedem Sprichwort werden die über den Grundwortschatz hinausgehenden Vokabeln angegeben; darauf folgt, wenn möglich, eine deutsche...
| Автор | Judith Krieg |
This carefully crafted ebook: «The Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Table of Contents: Scaramouche Series: Scaramouche Scaramouche the King-Maker Captain Blood Series: Captain Blood Captain Blood Returns The Fortunes of Captain Blood Novels: The Lovers of Yvonne The Tavern Knight Bardelys the Magnificent The Trampling of the Lilies Love-at-Arms The Shame of Motley St. Martin's Summer Mistress...
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Novels: Out of the Silence Fools' Harvest The Missing Angel Short Stories: Major Mendax Stories: The Great Mendax Transmitter The Invisibility of Mendax The Mendax Gold Saver The Rejuvenation of Slogger Binns An Awkward Dilemma "Forty Bob Or—" Other Stories: The Gift of Venus The Demoralisation of Muriel What the Archbishop Knew The Cog...
| Автор | Erle Cox |
After the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Ewen Cameron of Ardroy is living in Scottish Highlands by his beloved loch with his wife and two young boys. When his younger son falls in the cold loch water, he gets rescued in the last minute and falls ill, so Ewen goes strolling through hills and moors looking for someone who can help his boy. However, King George's Redcoats are patrolling through the Highlands, assisted by local clan spies, lurking to catch mutineers from the Rebellion. Ewen gets...
| Автор | D. K. Broster |
Eva durchlebt ihre Erinnerungen, seit der Zeit, wo sie von Jacques losgerissen wurde. Inmitten der Wirren der Revolution, die nun ihre eigenen Schöpfer beseitigt. Die schreckliche Todesmaschine arbeitet Tag und Nacht und auch Eva ist lebensmüde. Was ist mit ihrem Geliebten? Endlich treffen Sie sich wieder, doch die Zeit ist nicht für ihre Liebe reif. Wie wird das alles enden? Ebenfalls 1872 entstanden ist dieser Roman eine Mischung aus Historie und schriftstellerischer Freiheit. Erstmals in...
| Автор | Alexandre Dumas |
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas PeckettPrest. It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as «penny dreadfuls». The author was paid by the typeset line, so when the story was published in book form in 1847, it was of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly...
| Автор | James Malcolm Rymer |
Der mysteriöse Arzt und sein Gefolge bilden eine Gruppe, die auch als Schöpfung und Erlösung bekannt ist. Dr. Jacques Mérey, ein leidenschaftlicher Arzt für wissenschaftliche und esoterische Forschung, der die Reichen ablehnt, aber die Armen und die Tiere auf wundersame Weise heilt. Er entdeckt eines Tages in einer elenden Hütte, die von einem Holzfäller und seiner Mutter bewohnt wird, ein kleines «Ding», das völlig unzusammenhängend und stumm ist, ein von ihren Eltern verlassenes Mädchen....
| Автор | Alexandre Dumas |
This unique collection of D. K. Broster's greatest historical novels and action adventures has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an active table of contents, interactive footnotes and all other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable: The Jacobite Trilogy: The Flight of the Heron The Gleam in the North The Dark Mile The Vision Splendid The Yellow Poppy "Mr....
| Автор | D. K. Broster |
Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. Brought up not knowing his origins, he falls in with a gang of highwaymen. While disguised as a gentleman for the purposes of a confidence trick, he meets and falls in love with Lucy Brandon. Clifford is arrested for a highway robbery and brought before her uncle, Judge Brandon, for trial, where it is unexpectedly revealed that Clifford is Brandon's son…
| Автор | Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон |
Detective Malcolm Sage has been compared to both HerculePoirot and Sherlock Holmes in his style of detective work. Contents: Sir John Dene Receives His Orders The Strange Case of Mr.Challoner Malcolm Sage's Mysterious Movements The Surrey Cattle-Maiming Mystery Inspector Wensdale is Surprised The Stolen Admiralty Memorandum The Outrage at the Garage Gladys Norman Dines with Thompson The Holding Up of Lady Glanedale A Lesson in Deduction The Mcmurray Mystery The Marmalade Clue ...
| Автор | Herbert George Jenkins |
Mr. Rowl is an historical romance novel set in England during the Napoleonic Wars, following the fortunes of a captured Napoleon's soldier throughout the time of his captivation in England. Captain Raoul des Sablières is a French prisoner of war who is unjustly sent to the Plymouth hulks (Prison ship). He escapes and is befriended by a Royal Navy captain, Hervey Barrington, who tries to help him reunite with the young Englishwoman he loves, and with his repatriation to France.
| Автор | D. K. Broster |
The Iron Pirate is the tale of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorize the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed of a phosphor-bronze alloy with engines in the vessel that burn hydrogen, manufactured by passing steam through hot coal to produce a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the nameless ship is captained by the infamous Captain Black and it brings horror to every ship and every sailor that comes in its path.
| Автор | Pemberton Max |
Last and First Men is a «future history» science fiction novel, describing the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. Conception of history follows a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. It is an early example of the fictional supermind; a...
| Автор | Olaf Stapledon |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Olaf Stapledon collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels: Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Last Men in London Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest Star Maker Darkness and the Light Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord Death into Life Short Stories: The Flames The Seed and the Flower The Road to the Aide Post A Modern Magician East is...
| Автор | Olaf Stapledon |
A group of American archaeologists decide to open an Ancient Egyptian tomb despite various obvious warning. What follows is a discovery of a well-preserved mummy and sinister disappearances of the workers nearby. Is the mummy alive? Who is it? What does it want? Find out in this fast-paced mummy thriller that shaped the entire genre of mummy supernatural fiction! Excerpt: The sun sank below the horizon and swiftly the world grew dark. From the men's camp came a mournful chant, subdued,...
| Автор | Charlotte Bryson Taylor |
Barbara Blombergis a historical novel set in medieval Europe, telling the tale of young German singer who managed to caught an eye of the great Emperor Charles V. "Yet many long minutes elapsed ere he noticed the dish, though it was one of his favourite viands. Barbara's song stirred the imperial lover of music at the nocturnal banquet just as it had thrilled the great musicians a few hours before. He thought that he had never heard anything more exquisite, and when the Benedictio...
| Автор | Georg Ebers |
This meticulously edited collection comprises Poe's complete works: detective tales, horror stories, mysteries, novels, poetry, essays and much more. The edition also includes the extensive account of the writer's life and literary studies of his works. Novels The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket The Journal of Julius Rodman Short Stories The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Purloined Letter The Gold-Bug The Thousand-and-Second Tale of...
| Автор | Эдгар По |
This is a story of a young man from New England with a specific brain condition that causes him to lose memory every once in a while. He has been spending every winter in the South Carolina trying to heal, and learning about the customs and tradition of the South. His knowledge about the South qualifies him to do a spy work for the Union, but his brain plays a trick on him once again. While in a Confederate uniform, he gets amnesia and ends up fighting for the South.
| Автор | B. K. Benson |
In Ghostly Japanis a collection of supernatural and ghost stories, short pieces and folktales from Japan. Through these spooky stories, the author also analyses parts of the Japanese culture, dealing with philosophical and spiritual musing on the supernatural stories of Japan. Table of Contents: Furisodé Incense A Story of Divination Silkworms A Passional Karma Footprints of the Buddha Ululation Bits of Poetry Japanese Buddhist Proverbs Suggestion Ingwa-banashi Story of a Tengu At...
| Автор | Lafcadio Hearn |
The Nuremberg trials were held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. This volume contains trial proceedingsfrom 1 December 1945 to 14 December 1945.
| Автор | International Military Tribunal |