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Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Victoria Book of Days written by . This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one hundred beautiful photographs and illustrations from Victorian writers and poets provide ideas for gift giving, collecting, and gardening.
Author : Robert Chambers
Release : 1879
Genre : Anecdotes
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Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers. This book was released on 1879. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Rennell
Release : 2014-07-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Glory by : Tony Rennell
Download or read book The Last Days of Glory written by Tony Rennell. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when she was not Queen, and the very stability of everyday life seemed to depend on her regency. The anxiety of the government and the royal family about the prospect of the Queen's death was such that the news of her illness was deliberately concealed from the public for more than a week. When it came, people from England to Jamaica wept in the streets, and this grief was surpassed only by fear for the future. "God help us" was the standard reaction from all strata of society. The Last Days of Glory is the definitive account of those last 23 days in January 1901, when Victoria traveled to Osborne House to die. The momentous reaction to the Queen's passing attached to it more significance and a greater sense of change than the turn of the century had carried just a year earlier. Through the prism of those last days Tony Rennell presents us with a series of resonant and absorbing snapshots of a fading Empire at the end of the Victorian Age, and captures a nation coping with change, balancing comfortable nostalgia with the arrival of a new order.
Author : Elizabeth Bear
Release : 2013-03-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 914/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Queen Victoria's Book of Spells by : Elizabeth Bear
Download or read book Queen Victoria's Book of Spells written by Elizabeth Bear. This book was released on 2013-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors including Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked. "Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents, who present a bewitching vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic. Includes short stories by Delia Sherman, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine, Maureen McHugh, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Wein, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock, Kaaron Warren, Leanna Renee Hieber, Dale Bailey, Veronica Schanoes, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer, Jane Yolen, Gregory Maguire, Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Robert Chambers
Release : 1863
Genre : Anecdotes
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Days by : Robert Chambers
Download or read book The Book of Days written by Robert Chambers. This book was released on 1863. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
