title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers | Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 | en | | Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne -- Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood -- William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Dante and Beatrice -- John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor -- Parnell and Kitty O'Shea -- Petrarch and Laura -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall -- Balzac and Madame Hanska -- Fenelon and Madam Guyon -- Ferdinand Lassalie and Helene von Donniges -- Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. | | | 2007-11-12 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 6 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 2 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 1 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 4 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 7 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 3 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-08-24 |
Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 5 | Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707 | en | | | | Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Montespan, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de, 1641-1707; France -- Court and courtiers | 2004-12-02 |
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon | Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, 1648-1717 | en | | | | Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717; Catholics -- France -- Biography | 2007-08-08 |
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | Monsieur Parent -- The Father -- A Vagabond -- Useless Beauty -- Fly -- The Mad Woman -- That Pig of a Morin -- The Wooden Shoes -- A Normandy Joke -- A Cock Crowed -- Julot's Opinion -- Mademoiselle -- The Mountebanks -- The Sequel to a Divorce -- The Man with the Dogs -- The Clown -- Babette -- Sympathy -- The Debt -- An Artist -- Mademoiselle Fifi -- The Story of a Farm Girl -- Mamma Stirling -- Lilie Lala -- Madame Tellier's Establishment -- The Bandmaster's Sister -- False Alarm -- Wife and Mistress -- Mad -- An Unfortunate Likeness -- The New Sensation. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete | Various | en | | Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Memoirs Louis XIV, by Duch d'Orleans — Memoirs of Louis XIV, by Saint-Simon — Memoirs Louis XV./XVI, by Hausset — Memoirs Marie Antoinette, by Campan — Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud. | | France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793; Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764 | 2004-10-27 |
The Historical Nights' Entertainment
First Series | Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 | en | | The night of Holyrood: the murder of David Rizzio -- The night of Kirk o'Field: the murder of Darnley -- The night of betrayal: Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain -- The night of charity: the case of the Lady Alice Lisle -- The night of massacre: the story of the St. Bartholomew -- The night of witchcraft: Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan -- The night of gems: the affairs of the queen's necklace -- The night of terror: the drownings at Nantes under Carrier -- The night of nuptials: Charles the Bold and Sapphira Danvelt -- The night of stranglers: Giovanna of Naples and Andreas of Hungary -- The night of hate: the murder of the Duke of Gandia -- The night of escape: Casanova's escape from the Piombi -- The night of masquerade: the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden. | | | 2001-05-01 |
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | The Viaticum -- The Relics -- The Thief -- A Rupture -- A Useful House -- The Accent -- Ghosts -- Crash -- An Honest Ideal -- Stable Perfume -- The Ill-Omened Groom -- An Exotic Prince -- Virtue in the Ballet -- In His Sweetheart's Livery -- Delila -- A Mesalliance -- Bertha -- Abandoned -- A Night in Whitechapel -- Countess Satan -- Kind Girls -- Profitable Business -- Violated -- Jeroboam -- The Log -- Margot's Tapers -- Caught in the Very Act -- The Confession -- Was It a Dream -- The Last Step -- The Will -- A Country Excursion -- The Lancer's Wife -- The Colonel's Ideas -- One Evening -- The Hermaphrodite -- Marroca -- An Artifice -- The Assignation -- An Adventure -- The Double Pins -- Under the Yoke -- The Real One and the Other -- The Upstart -- The Carter's Wench -- The Marquis -- The Bed -- An Adventure in Paris -- Madame Baptiste -- Happiness. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time. | | English essays; English literature | 1998-08-01 |