Authors:John Webster, Rene Wei,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: duchess, devil, malfi, oxford, world, cuckold, classics, case, plays, law, cure
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-07-29
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0199539286
ISBN-13: 9780199539284
John Webster was a radically and creatively experimental dramatist. This volume offers his two great Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with his brilliant tragicomedy, The Devil’s Law-Case, and the comedy written with William Rowley, A Cure for a Cuckold. The texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
Author: Amanda Foreman
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: duchess
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-08-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0812979699
ISBN-13: 9780812979695
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNow a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph FiennesLady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana’s public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-tak
Author: Bertrice Small
Publisher: Ivy Books
Keywords: duchess
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345436954
ISBN-13: 9780345436955
In this lush new novel, Bertrice Small has created a moving story of consuming passion and undeniable love set against the noble splendor of Georgian England. . . .As the daughter of the richest man in England, Allegra Morgan attracts a number of fortune hunters willing to overlook her flawed pedigree to gain her enormous wealth. Her most ardent suitor is the arrogant but impoverished Quinton Hunter, duke of Sedgwick, who has little to offer a prospective wife except his grand title. Allegra decides that if she must marry, she might as well be a duchess. So she agrees to the match with one con
Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: duchess, indiscretion
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1426474482
ISBN-13: 9781426474484
Author: Dacia Maraini
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Keywords: duchess, silent
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 155861222X
ISBN-13: 9781558612228
Winner of the Premio Campiello (Italy’s equivalent of the National Book Award), short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the U.K., and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy’s premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. Set in Sicily in the early eighteenth century, The Silent Duchess is the story of Marianna Ucrìa, the daughter of an aristocratic family and the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and
Author: Jamie Carie
Publisher: B&H Fiction
Keywords: dragon, duchess
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0805445358
ISBN-13: 9780805445350
Rising romance novelist Jamie Carie’s second book, The Duchess and the Dragon, tells the epic story of two unlikely soulmates who live worlds apart but soon meet and turn each other’s world upside down. Drake Weston, Duke of Northumberland, is accustomed to a life of royalty until a tragic mistake followed by murderous rage results in his darkening character and sudden flee from England. With a hoarde of money on which to survive, Drake hops a ship of indentured servants to America but is duly robbed and taken ill by the merciless sea voyage. In Pennsylvania, Serena Winter is a humble, d
Author: Edith Macvane
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: dreams, duchess
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0559441819
ISBN-13: 9780559441813
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
