Henry Carter Hull

From WorldCat: "In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado." From the Preface: "The marvellous canyons of the Colorado River extend through a country absolutely bare and waterless, and save the tales told by a few...

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...

Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...

William Pitt Scargill (1787-1836) was a Unitarian minister and novelist. This is the initial volume in a 3-volume novel which satirizes the upper classes, their manners, and legal system in pre-Victorian England.

Peter: A Novel Of Which He Is Not The Hero is a novel published in 1908 by Francis Hopkinson Smith, which was the sixth best selling book in the United States in 1908, and ninth best-selling book of 1909. It sold in excess of 100,000 copies. The book is set in New York City, but the New York of a few decades prior to 1908 when the book was released. Peter Grayson is an aging banker of the old school; an upstanding and cultured gentleman, and not...

"George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films." [Source: Wikipedia]

Septembre 1798. Suite à son retour d'Aboukir où il a vaincu Bonaparte, lord Nelson, accompagné de la flotte britannique, est reçu en triomphateur par la cour de Naples. L'ambassadeur français Garat fait irruption dans cette manifestation d'hostilité anti-française et promet la guerre au Royaume de Naples. Trop vite cependant: le soir même, Salvato Palmieri, agent envoyé de Rome par le général Championnet, et qui devait l'informer de la...

Anatole France, pour l'état civil François Anatole Thibault1, né le 16 avril 1844 à Paris et mort le 12 octobre 1924 à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), est un écrivain français. Il est considéré comme l’un des plus grands de l'époque de la Troisième République, dont il a également été un des plus importants critiques littéraires. Il devient une des consciences les plus significatives de son temps en s’engageant en faveur...

First published in 1853, this novel by prolific English writer Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton presents English life of the first half of the 19th century in London and the village Hazeldean. [Description from bound edition of all volumes.]