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  • The Fortune Hunter

    A German Prince in Regency England

    de Peter James Bowman ...
    The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world’s richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became.The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany’s finest landscape gardener. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • On Tangled Paths

    de Theodor Fontane ...
    Traducido por Peter James Bowman ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this “sparkling, tender, delicately ironic” portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books).“A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy.”— Independent**From Germany’s greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Real Persuasion

    Portrait of a Real-Life Jane Austen Heroine

    de Peter James Bowman ...
    Her father is a vain, foolish baronet, obsessed with his lineage but so careless with money that he is obliged to quit his ancestral seat. Her sister is a fretful invalid with a good-natured husband and two disobedient sons. She herself falls in love with a handsome naval officer, and he with her, but her proud family consider his status and prospects inadequate. Heartbroken, the lovers part: he ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The First Celebrities

    Five Regency Portraits

    de Peter James Bowman ...
    What percentage of the printed and online media is dedicated to celebrity culture today? A tricky calculation; but there is no doubt that the percentage was pretty high when mass media first acquired a recognisably modern form in the Regency period. Peter James Bowman shows how, following the outrageous fame of Lord Byron, an interest in the foibles rather than the achievements of prominent ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Passenger

    A Novel

    de Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz ...
    Traducido por Philip Boehm ...
    **A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FOR THE GUARDIAN * FINANCIAL TIMES * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE * THE TIMESHailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany**Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Victoria: The Queen

    An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

    de Julia Baird ...
    The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTHE NEW ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Grand Hotel

    de Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Traducido por Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Buddenbrooks

    The Decline of a Family

    de Thomas Mann ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • We Two

    Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

    de Gillian Gill ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.”—USA Today**It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century—and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Love in Amsterdam

    A Novel

    de Nicolas Freeling ...
    Series series Van der Valk
    In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.It looks like a straightforward case—but police inspector Van der Valk is not ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Lady in Red

    An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

    de Hallie Rubenhold ...
    She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. The marriage of Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming and Sir Richard Worsley had the makings of a fairy tale—but ended as one of the most scandalous and highly publicized divorces in history.In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of a criminal conversation trial in which the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Up and Down Stairs

    The History of the Country House Servant

    de Jeremy Musson ...
    Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD