Nineteenthcentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

A. Muia
A Desert Between Two Seas

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest …

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Michael Lobban
Imperial Incarceration

For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, t…

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Margot Livesey
The Road from Belhaven

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy , an unforgettable novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in nineteenth-century Scotlan…

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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Loa #394)

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representi…

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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (Loa #395)

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, represent…

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Sigge Winther Nielsen
The Puzzle State

The wicked problems of our time-climate change, migration, inequality, productivity, and mental health-remain stubbornly unresolved in Western democracies. It's time for a new way to puzzle.This book take…

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Timothy Corrigan
At Home in France

"In his third book, AD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer Corrigan shares the joys of decorating and living in his Paris apartment and new chateau infectiously inspiring us to design áa la franðcaise.…

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson's nineteenth-century novel Treasure Island set the tone for countless other pirate stories.Perhaps the most iconic pirate story of all time, Treasure Island was written by Robert Lo…

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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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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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Nicholas Lemann
Returning

Nicholas Lemann grew up thinking he wanted to be Jack Burden, the ever-curious reporter-historian in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men who gets drawn into a web of southern intrigue. Like his fictio…

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Seth Rockman
Plantation Goods

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industr…

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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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Gayl Jones
Corregidora

Virago Modern Classics

No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISONI dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregid…

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Amy L Montz
Dressing for England

Illuminates the interplay of gender, fashion, and nationalism in Victorian literature and culture.Dressing for England argues that women's interest in fashionable clothing--in dress that appealed to a sop…

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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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Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams

Born into one of America's most distinguished families-great-grandson and grandson of presidents-Henry Adams seemed destined for greatness. Yet in this extraordinary autobiography, Adams chronicles not tr…

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Alexander Fomich Veltman,
Selected Stories

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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Andrew R Black
Buried Dreams

The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie…

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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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