"Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last...
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HMS Sutherland of two decks and seventyfour guns, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was on her way north from Gibraltar to her rendezvous in the Western Mediterranean. To port lay the coast of Spain; to starboard, and barely in sight, just peeping over...
From the master storyteller, this is a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance. It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the...
Hunting the...
Автор: Orczy Baroness
Серия: The Scarlet Pimpernel #4
Язык: английский
Год: 1906
Статус: Закончена
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Juliette de Marny, last scion of an ancient ducal family, has sworn to ruin the man who killed her brother the Vicomte in a duel: Paul Déroulede, now a member of the Assembly. She learns four things while a guest in his house: her brother provoked...
In Destiny's...
Автор: Plaidy Jean
Серия: The Queens of England Series #6
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
Статус: Закончена
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As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and...
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