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To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking...
En el verano de 1831, las calles de Yekaterinoslav, en Rusia, amanecen atestadas de cadáveres. El cólera y la peste se ceban en los humildes y amenazan a la nobleza. Helena Petrovna von Hahn, hija de un coronel y una aristócrata,...
La novela, ambientada a finales del siglo XV, narra la historia de un personaje ficticio a quien se envía en busca del cuerno del unicornio, que se supone aumentará la virilidad del rey Enrique IV de Castilla, llamado el Impotente. En la...
Carcasona, 1357. En los tiempos del papa Inocencio VI, en el sur de Francia, reina la peste y la Inquisición. La abadesa Marie Françoise va a ser juzgada bajo los cargos de herejía y brujería por haber realizado sanaciones...
April 1915, and it has become apparent that the war will be neither glorious nor short. England is changing, rapidly in some aspects, and the feuding between military and politicians is just beginning.
The three remaining midshipmen, two...
Enemy of God is the second novel of the Warlord series, and immediately follows the events described in The Winter King. In that book the King of Dumnonia and High King of Britain, Uther, dies and is succeeded by his lamed baby grandson, Mordred....
Katharina II. wurde 1729 als Prinzessin Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (in der Literatur gewöhnlich Sophie oder Sophia von Anhalt-Zerbst genannt) in Stettin geboren. Sie war eine Tochter von Fürst Christian August von...
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1982. gada 5. maijā Latvijas PSR Augstākā tiesa man piesprieda nāvessodu nošaujot.
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Audacious. Wildly ambitious. Prolific. All describe William T. Vollmann, author of the seven-volume nonfiction work Rising Up and Rising Down and “Seven Dreams” sequence of novels, which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “likely to...