H. G. Wells 2x85b
H. G. Wells Little Wars is a book of game with set of rules followed by his earlier work Floor Games. While it will be more interesting to play it as a game, the real war is the worst artificial calamities which can be avoided by mankind. While the elementary level of the game is simple rules of movement and firing with set timings, an extension of.. 5y3663
Lucy Maud Montgomery 254p1d
Unusual to the base of Anne Of Green Gables series Lucy explores the World War in her novel Rilla of Ingleside. Anne Shirley's role in this novel is very much limited and revolves around her youngest daughter Rilla in her juvenile age. It is believed that Lucy's original manuscript is edited to comply with the current anti-German sentiment. T..
Herman Melville 5c497
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for himself on board ship, with materials..
Nathaniel Hawthorne 37n6c
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun, written on the eve of the American Civil War, is set in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and tr..
Alexandre Dumas 1x576i
French author Alexandre Dumas is known for penning many masterpieces of historical fiction, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The tale The Hero of the People, set in the waning days of the French Revolution, tweaks Dumas' classic formula by adding a little more romance to the equation. With action, adventure, ..
Alexandre Dumas 1x576i
Set in Paris during the French Revolution, The Mesmerist's Victim tells a tale of star-crossed lovers whose romance blooms at an extremely inopportune moment in history. Will they be able to find happiness together, or will they be swallowed up in the tumult of radical political and social change?Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père,..
Alexandre Dumas 1x576i
The Prussian Terror from Alexandre Dumas. French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure (1802-1870). Set in 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, this exciting and masterfully-retold story is highly recommended for fans of historical fiction, and constitutes a must-read for lovers of Dumas’s seminal work...
Alexandre Dumas 1x576i
In "Twenty Years After" Dumas dealt with the earlier stages of the War of the Fronde,—the arrest of the three counsellors of the Parliament of Paris, Charton, Blancmesnil, and Broussel, the "day of barricades," of which the Abbé de Gondy, coadjutor to the Archbishop of Paris, afterwards Cardinal de Retz, claims to have been the author, and the flig..