Model Number: BBAL1412124468DLDA
Author: Muhlbach, Louise.
The population of Vienna was paralyzed with terror; a heavy gloom weighed down all minds, and the strength of the stoutest hearts seemed broken. Couriers had arrived today from the camp of the army, and brought the dreadful tidings of an overwhelming defeat of the Austrian forces. Bonaparte, the young ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412124379DLDA
Author: Muhlbach, Louise
I would merely say a few words in justification of the Historical Romance, in its relation to history. Any one, with no preceding profound study of history, who takes a few well-known historical facts as a foundation for an airy castle of romantic invention and fantastic adventure, may easily write an ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412119154DLDA
Author: Leighton, Robert
The following narrative is not so much a story as a biography. My hero is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just nine centuries ago. The main facts of his adventurous career - his boyhood of slavery in Esthonia, his life at the court of King Valdemar ...more »
Model Number: BBAL141212395XDLDA
Author: Major, Charles
Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals. Great Charlemagne ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_18274DLDA
Author: Dumas, Alexandre Pere
vous présente cinq romans d'Alexandre Dumas: 1. Joseph Balsamo: Mémoires d'un médecin 2. Le collier de la reine 3. Ange Pitou 4. La comtesse de Charny 5. Le chevalier de Maison Rouge Ils font tous partie de la série Marie Antoinette. more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_18512DLDA
Author: Dumas, Alexandre Pere
Que le lecteur se transporte avec nous à trois lieues au delà de Rome, à l'extrémité de la via Appia, au bas de la descente d'Albano, à l'endroit même où la voie antique, vieille de deux mille ans, s'embranche avec une route moderne âgée seulement de deux siècles, laquelle contourne les tombeaux, et ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554436168DLDA
Author: Pyle,Howard
The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II - weak, wicked, and treacherous - had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412144108DLDA
Author: Dumas, Alexandre
On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according ...more »
