A 19th century French winemaker is visited by a male angel and falls in love. The angel visits him once a year and the friendship leads to a triangle involving the winemaker's wife.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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Auteur:Balogh, MarySommaire:War-blinded Lord Darleigh avoids the friends and family to whom he can no longer relate while spending more time with fellow veterans in the Survivors' Club and slowly bonding with a woman who helps him find healing and wholeness.
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Horatio Hornblower and, with his crew from the Lydia, look set to take on...
- Auteur:POPE, DudleySommaire:
In this exciting adventure Capt. Ramage RN must rescue a mixed group of people being held hostage by Napoleon amongst whom he hopes to find his wife.
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Auteur:POPE, DudleySommaire:Young Capt. Ramage, recently married, hopes to settle down for few quiet months with his new wife but Nelson asks for him by name and soon he is caught up on the great battle of Trafalgar.
- Auteur:Allen, LouiseSommaire:
Meg eloped to escape her reverend father's iron rule. Now widowed, she's desperate to return to her sisters. When Major Brandon is left unconscious on the Bordeaux docks, Meg grabs her chance--posing as his wife, she boards a ship to...
- Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:
A shy and lonely seventeen-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy - and becomes one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.
- Auteur:Marryat, FrederickSommaire:
A rollicking sea adventure, set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy follows the escapades of a young midshipman who enters the King's service with some ideas that run badly afoul of the standards of naval...
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea. On the threshold of securing his first post as Captain, Hornblower finds himself forced to fight alongside a man...
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession... After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act...
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the Terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:The final three stories of Forester's early 19th century British naval hero. In "Lord Hornblower", the English fleet battles to retain Le Havre, its only foothold in Napoleon's France.
