Nineteenthcentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 7

Jennifer Lofkrantz
Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.In this pioneering study---the first to cover ransoming, or the re…

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Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment

Signature Clothbound Editions

Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic of Russian literature in its first---and still, arguably, best---translation by Constance Garnett, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clot…

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Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Macmillan Collector's Library

Murder and mayhem abound in three suspenseful stories by Edgar Allan Poe, whose nineteenth-century writing left a lasting impact on the gothic and horror genres.On board a ship, a man watches on as his ol…

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Isabel Allende,
My Name is Emilia del Valle

A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTONThe new histo…

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Ayelet Waldman
A Perfect Hand

A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady's maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England. "Ayelet Wald…

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Barbara Hambly
Murder in the Trembling Lands

A Benjamin January Historical Mystery

Masked balls, duels and murder : musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans.*February, 1841.*It…

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Rafael Walker
Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

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Robert J Miller
Faith of the Fathers

Faith of the Fathers provides a captivating collective biography of the Catholic priests who served in America's most deadly war.Faith of the Fathersbrings to light the forgotten stories of courageous cha…

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Thomas E Wartenberg
Thoughtful Cinema

Anyone who has seen a film and then followed up with a cup of coffee or glass of wine as they discuss it with friends knows that films can inspire thoughtful conversation and further reflection--sometimes…

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Larry Millett
Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis

Three novellas of murder and mystery in nineteenth-century MinneapolisOWNER DIES UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES AT MINNEAPOLIS MILL!HOTEL BELLMAN FOUND DEAD IN OSCAR WILDE'S ROOM!$10,000 REWARD FOR DISCOVERI…

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Steve Hewitt
A History of Terrorism in Canada

Canada is often viewed as a peaceful nation, yet A History of Terrorism in Canada reveals a long and continuous record of politically and ideologically motivated violence. From the nineteenth-century Feni…

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Henrik Pontoppidan,
The White Bear

"Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live …

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Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor

A forgotten nineteenth-century classic novel about a young woman torn between her passion for medicine and what society expects of her. "Perfection . . . beautiful and delicate work."---Willa Ca…

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David R. Shumway
American Narrative Realism

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion, typical of nineteenth-century novels and Hollywood movies alike. After a long period…

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Ritchie Robertson
E.T.A. Hoffmann

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcracker.E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as The Sandman as well as h…

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Alexander Fomich Veltman,
Selected Stories

Studies in Russian Literature and Theory

Five tales of social satire from a forgotten sensation of nineteenth-century Russian literatureIn 1830s and '40s Russia, A. F. Veltman's eccentric writings were a fixture on the bookshelves of the reading…

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Ian Radforth
Making a Killing

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

In late nineteenth-century Canada, the life insurance industry expanded impressively, offering policy-holders a greater sense of security. However, insurance fraud quickly followed in the footsteps of thi…

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Yossef Rapoport
Islamic Maps

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of Islamic cartography and the key Muslim map-makers who shaped the art over the centuries. Mus…

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Ayelet Waldman
A Perfect Hand

A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady's maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England. "Ayelet Wald…

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Stephen R Platt
Imperial Twilight

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one…

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