Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte- Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à...
19th century
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Author:Tamara Fonteyn, Dumas, Alexandre, Staal, Pierre Gustave EugèneSummary: - Author:Cotton, Ralph W.Summary:
When Texas Bob Krey gets a hot hand in cards, his good luck sparks a gunfight. Once the smoke clears, two men are dead, including the brother of Judge Henry Bass. Now Texas Bob is an outlaw, and only Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has the...
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Author:Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, ĬokhananSummary:This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of the conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The...
- Author:Laugrand, Frédéric B., Oosten, Jarich G.Summary:
Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions between Inuit, Oblate missionaries, and Grey...
- Author:Ross, W. GilliesSummary:
Captains of whaling vessels were experienced navigators of northern waters, and William Penny was in the vanguard of the whaling fraternity. Leading the first maritime expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, he stood out not just for...
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Author:Wilson, FrancesSummary:Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. In this biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and originality.
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Author:Kittler, Friedrich A.Summary: -
Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:In the second installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, Ghost Moon follows young James Doolen's story after he discovers the terrible truth about his father in Written in Blood. The year is 1878, and young Jim is not yet ready to...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Young, ArleneSummary:
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young...
- Author:Duckworth, Harry W.Summary:
George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is...
- Author:DeRamus, BettySummary:
Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses deeply felt a sorrowful anguish and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite....
- Author:Marti, Steve, Pratt, William JohnSummary:
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire. War forced Canadians to re-examine their relationship to Britain...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her 'visitors' in their house in Weavers Lane have taught Emmy Carter that prostitution is a life she must avoid at all costs.
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Author:Scott, ScarlettSummary:He's lethal and ruthless. Suspended from his work as an agent for the Crown, Griffin, Duke of Strathmore, exists under a dark cloud of suspicion for crimes he didn't commit. He's on a desperate race to clear his name by any means until...
- Author:Ross, ArthurSummary:
Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of...
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Author:Clare, CassandraSummary:When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
- Author:Roberts, CokieSummary:
Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Cokie Roberts brings war-torn Washington, DC, into focus through the lives of its formidable women.
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Author:Brown, DeeSummary:Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
DescriptionBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855.
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