Louis: 5538 books

In a powerful chronicle, spanning three centuries of the Winthrop family in New England and New York, Louis Auchincloss portrays the rise and fall of the Puritan ethic. Through a richly diverse gallery of men and women, both real and fictional, he illuminates the personal and social conflicts that...

With his customary wit, humor, and irony, along with a fine sense of the period, Louis Auchincloss artfully brings to life an exciting and dramatic facet of eighteenth-century England. On the Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the lowlands in a bloody combat with Louis...

Bob Service, the protagonist of this deft and chilling novel of contemporary ambition and greed, is a thirty-two-year-old crack lawyer with blood as cold and clear as a five-dollar martini. Bob's god is power and his morals are ever tempered by expediency. His goals far exceed an imminent partnership...

The offices, penthouses, and suburban chateaux of New York are the setting for Louis Auchincloss's The Dark Lady. Spanning three decades from the 1930s to the McCarthy era, the novel chronicles a powerful woman's rise and the human toll it exacts. In a world where birth and style count nearly...

Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as “among the best in American literature” (Kirkus Reviews).   In the title story, a teacher at a private girls’ school ruminates on a long career, wondering if he was right to encourage...

A British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century. Table of Contents A Mysterious Disappearance Cynthia's Chauffeur The Stowaway Girl Number...

A reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt's ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition—a psychological twist on the smart historical thriller that first put Louis Bayard on the map Brazil's Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore...

Welcome and thank you for reading the DEA Undercover Thriller series. These novels are based on my decades in law enforcement's special operations and undercover work. My other thriller series, A Joe Boxer Thriller, has many of the same characters, although a completely different reading experience....

Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all...

Louis Knobel was born in South Africa in 1946. He has been actively involved in nature conservation and has also worked for many years as Consultant for major organizations in various fields, including IT. He has travelled extensively and has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France...

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in the West Indies, Simpson immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. He studied at Columbia University, then served the US Army in active duty in Europe during...

An Engagement of Convenience Louis Zangwill, english novelist (1869-1938) This ebook presents «An Engagement of Convenience», from Louis Zangwill. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- MOTTO -03- AN ENGAGEMENT OF CONVENIENCE

This is the one they don't want you to read. This has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and housing. No one is better qualified to consult with this government than Louis Shalako, a client of ODSP, (the Ontario Disability...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror. *** Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a short novel about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences...