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Author	Walter Scott
ISBN	0140436588

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0543896609

From the beloved author of Treasure Island

Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses,...

Author	Henryk Sienkiewicz
ISBN	0781805503

Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as...

Author	Jules Verne
ISBN	1421820609

There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M -, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause. This rare...

Author

David Fishelson

There is a lot of talk about Kafka and nightmares – and with good reason. However, his nightmares are never quite what you might expect - expectations are always a problem when reading Kafka, firsst they get in the way and then they get dashed. In Metamorphosis there is the ‘yuck’ factor of the main...

Author	Fyodor Sologub
ISBN	0882338080

The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting, he is at once a victim, a monster, a silly...

Author	Nikolai Kun
ISBN	5847504594

Книгата "Старогръцки легенди и митове" от професор Н. А. Кун - един от най-авторитетните изследователи на старогръцката култура - представлява сборник...

Author

Vasily Yan

Роман «Чингисхан» В. Г. Яна (Янчевецкого) — первое произведение трилогии «Нашествие монголов». Это яркое историческое произведение, удостоенное Государственной...

Author

Ivan Efremov

Действие знаменитого исторического романа "Таис Афинская" разворачивается во времена завоевательных походов Александра Македонского. Главная...

Author	Heinrich Mann
ISBN	1585674877

review of
Heinrich Mann's Young Henry of Navarre
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - February 1, 2016
full review: "Moderation, By Any Means Necessary?": https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...

THIS REVIEW ISN'T LONG ENUF BUT THERE IS A LONGER VERSION AT THE ABOVE URL.

Heinrich...