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Book cover of The History of the French Revolution Vol I [Illustrated Edition]
by Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent...
Book cover of The History of the French Revolution Vol II [Illustrated Edition]
by Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016

The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent...
Book cover of Saint Joan

Saint Joan

The Girl Soldier

by Louis de Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016

This book combines a world-famous Catholic novelist, Louis de Wohl, with one of the most thrilling and dramatic saints’ lives in history, St. Joan of Arc. De Wohl uses his famed narrative skill to tell young people about the brave teenage French girl who had visions and led armies in battle, but...
Book cover of Introduction to Traditional Islam

Introduction to Traditional Islam

Foundations, Art and Spirituality

by Jean-Louis Michon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2008

Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam. Jean-Louis Michon, a UNESCO advisor tasked with preserving the architectural and artistic heritage of Islam, unveils this lesser-known dimension of the world's second largest religion.
Book cover of Yellow Bricks
by Louis Daniel Brodsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013

In this, Brodsky's first book of short fictions, you're likely to find yourself in absurdity's line of fire, the ammo consisting of an insurance agent, adept at selling policies covering impregnation by aliens; a milquetoast husband, whose nagging wife communicates with him via Post-it Note commands;...
Book cover of Defeating Mau Mau
by Louis Leakey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

The second of two important books by Louis Leakey, the renowned expert on the Kikuyu tribe. This book examines the organisation of the Mau Mau movement, its propaganda, the nature of its religious aspects and its oaths and the mistakes its leaders made as well as covering chapters on necessary reforms to prevent further outbreaks of a similar nature.
Book cover of Prince Otto, a Romance
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014

Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885. The novel was largely written during 1883. Stevenson referred to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort", one of the chapters was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and once by his wife.
Book cover of Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition)

Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition)

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

This carefully crafted ebook: "Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed...
Book cover of The Pirates' Treasure Chest (7 Gold Hunt Adventures & True Life Stories of the Legendary Swashbucklers)

The Pirates' Treasure Chest (7 Gold Hunt Adventures & True Life Stories of the Legendary Swashbucklers)

The Gold-Bug, The Book of Buried Treasure, Treasure Island, The Pirate of Panama, Black Bartlemy's Treasure, Pieces of Eight, The Pagan Madonna, Stolen Treasure...

by Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Le Gallienne, William Macleod Raine
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe): A man is bitten by a golden bug and what ensues is a treasure hunt adventure featuring a cryptic message. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson): A young boy is trapped between fierce pirates and his desire to find the missing treasure. The Pirate of Panama (William...
Book cover of Majesty
by Louis Couperus
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

Dutch writer Louis Couperus's classic novel about royalty threatened with anarchism.
Book cover of Kirkcaldy of Grange
by Louis A. Barbé
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015

THE materials available for a biography of Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange are very unequally distributed over the two portions into which his life naturally divides itself. For the first of them, I have been obliged to content myself with the rather meagre and fragmentary information to be gathered...
Book cover of The Legends Of The Jews Volume III: From The Exodus To The Death Of Moses
by Louis Ginzberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

The Legends of the Jews (Volume III: From the Exodus to the Death of Moses) by Louis Ginzberg Forty years in the wilderness transformed Hebrew slaves into the Jewish people. In the long wandering to the promised land, much happened that the Bible did not record. Volume Three collects the legends...
Book cover of Napoléon apocryphe

Napoléon apocryphe

1812-1832 Histoire de la conquête du monde et de la monarchie universelle

by Louis Geoffroy
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2012

« Napoléon voulut rester à Saint-Pétersbourg pendant toute la saison d’hiver : il se plut à anéantir par sa présence l’ennemi impérial qu’il avait été dix années à abattre. Aujourd’hui qu’il régnait dans son empire, qu’il habitait dans son palais, il prolongeait à plaisir...
Book cover of Philippe-Auguste
by Louis Phocion Todière
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016

BnF collection ebooks - "Louis VII, dit le Jeune, était parvenu à l'âge de cinquante-quatre ans sans obtenir d'enfants mâle. Quoique la succession héréditaire et le droit de primogéniture ne fussent pas encore établis sur des principes certains, ce roi désirait ardemment un fils, afin...
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