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Books on History
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William Wordsworth
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2004]
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One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the... more
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Here are the stories of King Midas, Pandora, Medusa, Hercules, and the other inhabitants of Mount Olympus told by one of America's greatest writers. Written in 1851 as a money-maker for the struggling Hawthorne, A Wonder Book has become a favorite for generations of children everywhere. Hawthorne's mastery of adventure... more
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John Scally
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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In this celebration of the good, the bad and the beautiful of Gaelic games, John Scally carries out over a hundred revealing interviews with the players and managers who are synonymous with the game to present a unique oral history of the GAA. For 125 years, the GAA has been... more
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Steve Roud
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Discover the colourful traditions and bizarre superstitions of the world's most vibrant city. In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers? Why did 1920s working-class Londoners wear necklaces of blue beads? Who was the original inspiration for the 'pearly king' costume? And did... more
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John Keegan
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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The definitive history of the American Civil War, highlighting the geography, leadership and strategic logic at the heart of the conflict. With maps and illustrations. The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured... more
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Alex Games
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Tying in with a major new BBC2 series, this book will look at our national obsession with words: their meanings, their origins and their place in our culture. Each episode of the programme will concentrate on a single letter and celebrities will discuss their favourite words, and the accompanying book... more
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Bertie Ahern
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Working with Richard Aldous, Bertie Ahern has written a very human and compelling book which reveals what it was like to be Irish Taoiseach for more than ten tumultuous years during which the whole country and Europe was transformed. Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an... more
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Stephen Anderton
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Christopher Lloyd (Christo) was one of the greatest English gardeners of the twentieth century, perhaps the finest plantsman of them all. His creation is the garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex, and it is a tribute to his vision and achievement that, after his death in 2006, the Heritage... more
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Claudio Magris ,
Patrick Creagh
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments, from... more
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David Hall
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his beloved traction engine for the BBC series Made in Britain. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, the intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements of the craftsmen, engineers, inventors... more
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Christopher Winn
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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This glorious miscellany of good stories and fascinating facts about England, is the ultimate journey around the country, and includes history, legends, firsts, supremes, unusuals, inventions, birthplaces and gossip from each county. This irresistible miscelllany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and... more
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Claude Choules
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars. Claude learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduating to become an... more
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Ruth Dudley Edwards ,
R D Edwards
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Opposites in most respects, Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil Harmsworth King were the "Barnum and Bailey" of Fleet Street. Together they created the world's biggest publishing empire, but their relationship foundered sensationally in 1968 when, as King tried to topple the Prime Minister, Cudlipp toppled King. Description: They were 'Cudlipp' and... more
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A N Wilson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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The third in the series, following the bestselling }The Victorians{ and }After The Victorians{, bringing the reader up to the present day. Beginning in the 1950s, and how Britain had to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the War, moving onto the rise of satire, the Vietnam and Cold War,... more
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Anna Del Conte
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. When war came to Italy everything changed: her family had to abandon their apartment and the city for the countryside, where the peasants still ate well, but life was dangerous... As a teenager, Anna became used... more
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Robert Burns
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2005]
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This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red... more
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A N Wilson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is... more
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Aeschylus
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"Streamlined in its storytelling and voluptuous in its use of language."Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times [from a review of the Court Theater production] The great trilogy that is the wellspring of Western drama. Aeschylus, the earliest of the great Attic tragedians, presented his Oresteia at Athens' City Dionysia festival in 458... more
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Alison Weir
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII-s second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower... more
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A Trollope
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Written as a sequel to The Warden , this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images... more
