The Awkward Age pdf The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper’s Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family’s social set by a young girl coming of age, the…
Caesar And Cleopatra pdf Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain Brassbound’s Conversion and The Devil’s Disciple in Shaw’s 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed in…
The Destruction Of The Indies pdf A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then…
The Bostonians book on Amazon The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom’s cousin and a Boston…
La Reine Margot pdf La Reine Margot (English: Queen Margot) is a historical novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père. Although La Reine Margot is based on real characters and events, certain aspects of the novel may be inconsistent with the historical record; historians have attributed that to artistic license and the fact that…
A Tale Of Two Cities pdf A Tale of Two Cities pdf is a novel book by Charles Dickens, distributed both drama and book structure in 1859. The story is set in the late eighteenth century against the foundation of the French Revolution. In spite of the fact that Charles Dickens acquired from Thomas Carlyle’s…
I Puritani Di Scozia pdf I puritani (The Puritans) is an opera in by Sir Walter Scott. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set-to a libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, an…
Peveril Of The Peak pdf Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Woodstock, and Kenilworth, this is one of Scott’s English novels, with the main action taking place around 1678. Peveril Of The Peak Summary Sir Geoffrey Peveril and Major Bridgenorth had been boys together; and…
History Of England The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume’s great work on the history of England, which he wrote in installments while he was a librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his History was greeted with outrage by all political factions, but it…
La Maison À Vapeur: Voyage À Travers l’Inde Septentrionale pdf La Maison à vapeur1 est un roman historique et d’aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1880. L’œuvre est publiée en feuilleton dans le Magasin d’éducation et de récréation du 1er décembre 1879 au 15 décembre 1880 et en librairie dès le 15 novembre 1880 chez Hetzel. L’histoire…
Ivanhoe Novel Ivanhoe /ˈaɪvənˌhoʊ/ is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1819 (all first editions carry the date of 1820, however, it was released at the end of December 1819) in three volumes and subtitled A Romance. At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from…
The Three Musketeers Book pdf The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires [le tʁwa muskətɛʁ]) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625–1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris,…