"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions…
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:??An exclusive preview chapter from Jean M. Auel?s The Land of Painted Caves, on sale in hardcover March 29, 2011??An Earth?s Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other book…
This thesis sees the literature about 'Mau Mau' as an ideal site for theexamination of certain socially significant modes of interaction between 'nonfictional'discourses ('history', autobiography, 'social psychology' etc.) andfictional discourses (both 'serious' and 'popular'). …
The Starsplitters, a historical and literary fiction, highlights cultural prejudice, gender inequality, and a struggle for autonomy, absolution, and forgiveness in northern New England. A mysterious letter summons Helen Starbird and her granddaughter Laramie to a dying mill town…
