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10 best books like Duchess of Milan (Michael Ennis): Great Maria, The Master of Verona, Kathryn in the Court of Six Queens, The Venetian Mask, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Life of God (as Told by Himself), Don't Open This Book, The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1), Sherlock in Love, How Long Has This Been Going On?

Great Maria
AuthorCecelia Holland
ISBN0939149842
I began writing a review and then forgot to save it when I had to leave the PC. I still intend writing one, but I'm out of time for the moment. But to say in the interim that I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this work. It has stood the test of time and it is very different from the norm. The voice is very powerful...
The Master of Verona
AuthorDavid Blixt
ISBN0312361440
A few pages into Master of Verona one of the two characters who opens the book jumps out of the path of an oncoming horde, off a bridge and feet first into a river. That's pretty much how that first chapter runs for the reader, as well - straight into it, and swept off with the current.

And the action...
Kathryn in the Court of Six Queens
AuthorAnne Merton Abbey
ISBN0553280112
Her name was Kathryn Chase, sensuous and powerful lady-in-waiting during the scandalous reign of Henry Tudor. She was the friend of Catherine of Aragon, confidante of Anne Boleyn, and lover of John de Gael, sworn enemy of the English crown. As proud King Henry defied the Church to take six very different...
The Venetian Mask
AuthorRosalind Laker
ISBN0307352560
Enduring friendships and long-held vendettas come alive against the splendor and decadence of eighteenth-century Venice.

In 1775 Venice–known to outsiders as “the brothel of Europe”–the tradition of mask-wearing has allowed adultery and debauchery to flourish. But Marietta...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
The Life of God (as Told by Himself)
AuthorFranco Ferrucci
ISBN0226244962
At the center of Franco Ferrucci's inspired novel is a tender, troubled God. In the beginning is God's solitude, and because God is lonely he creates the world. He falls in love with earth, plunges into the oceans, lives as plant and reptile and bird. His every thought and mood serve to populate the planet,...
Don't Open This Book
AuthorMarvin Kaye
39 tales of weird fantasy, taboo science and souls in torment.

The Problem of the Country Mailbox by Edward D. Hoch
The Bargain by A.M. Burrage
The Sins of the Father by Carole Bugge
The Moving Finger Types by Henry Slesar
The Story of Obbok by Darrell Schweitzer
Revised...
The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1)
AuthorGloria K. Fiero
ISBN0072910127
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
Sherlock in Love
AuthorSena Jeter Naslund
ISBN0688178448
How did Sherlock Homes come into possession of a true Stardivarius?  Who was the one true love of the great detective's life?  And what shattering disappointment left the detective with feelings of overwhelming melancholy?  As Holme's great friend, Dr. Watson, sets out to answer these questions...
How Long Has This Been Going On?
AuthorEthan Mordden
ISBN0312168675
Fiction. You know that feeling you get when you're reading a book and stubbornly wishing that the characters were gay even though you know you're only going to be disappointed? I really didn't have that problem here. Everyone in it is gay: the insecure cop working vice, the Kid putting on a burlesque act...
The Alhambra
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN0674015681


A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
Spices: A Global History
AuthorFred Czarra
ISBN1861894260
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
AuthorHelen Gardner
ISBN9780495573
In its acclaimed tenth edition, the most successful art history every written is now made available to the book trade and the consumer market for the first time. The history of art has been, successively, a history of artists and their works, of styles and stylistic change, of images--and now, of context...
The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
AuthorGreg Nagan
ISBN0684867672
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
Primavera
AuthorMary Jane Beaufrand
ISBN0316016446
The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of art, architecture and learning, but it had a darker side. Two powerful families, the tyrannical Medici and their biggest rivals, the Pazzi, are tangled in a bloody struggle for ultimate power. Caught in the whirlwind is Flora, the last daughter of...
The Remedy
AuthorMichelle Lovric
ISBN0060837039
I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . .

The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, balsamic lozenges, and candied fruit in the humid swoop of the orchard branches whenever we went . . .

I married Christ in...
Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
AuthorIrving Stone
ISBN0452275016
I loved this book. Pisarro has long been my favorite impressionist painter. I went thru a phase where I just couldn't get enough of him, his works, and wanted to learn all I could about his life and times. He came alive for me in this book, as did his dedicated wife and his fascinating contemporaries.

Stone...
White Rose Turned to Blood
AuthorRosemary Hawley Jarman
ISBN0752439421
As Edward IV lay on his deathbed, he had no knowledge of the dark conspiracy which was to surround his son, and his brother Richard after his death. He decreed that Richard should act as protector to the young Edward, but his wish was honoured for just a short time - until Edward was named a bastard and the...
Then and Now
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN0405078226
Amazing historical fiction. Utterly amazing author and prose!

Then and Now by W. Somerset Maugham follows four months of the year 1502 in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)--Florentine author, playwright, philosopher, politician and diplomat. It is about the man Machiavelli...
The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain
AuthorAllan Massie
ISBN0312581750
"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."

--The Wall Street Journal

In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns....
The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million
AuthorO. Henry

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
The Wind from Hastings
AuthorMorgan Llywelyn
ISBN1568496133
Edyth, wife of King Harold of England, disappeared forever on the day of the great Battle of Hastings in 1066, taking with her the legitimate heirs to the thrones of England and Wales. This is the story of that amazing woman, who loved and married the King of Wales and then the man who would be King of England,...
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