Romance Books Collection

The Greek Alexander Romance By:Richard Stoneman Published on 1991-04-25 by Penguin UK Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism. This Book was ranked at 17 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of The Greek Alexan...

The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East By:Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton Published on 2012 by Barkhuis Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he a simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a hero of the Persian dynasties and of Islam? The conflicting views that were taken of him in the Middle East in his own time and the centuries that followed are still reflected in the tensions that exist between east and west today. The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early as the third century AD. From these beginni...

Asia's Legendary Hotels By:William Warren Published on 2012-06-04 by Tuttle Publishing Featuring over 370 artful photographs and insightful commentary, this book is an exploration of the most magnificent and opulent hotels across the Asia-Pacific region. Asia, and its many splendid countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, prides itself on being a destination. It has a rich history, and a part of that history is the magnificent travel accommodations that sprang up to cater to the western traveler. Presented with more spectacular photos and rare archival images, Asia's Legendary Hotels features some of Asia's most significant luxury hotels, locals renowned for their monumental history and superb levels of service and luxury. No literary hotel nor colonial hotel is left out of the mix, from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Ananda in the Himalayas. This book captures the romance of travel from days gone by, when the journey itself was as much of an adv...

The Family Romance of the French Revolution By:Lynn Hunt Published on 1992-01-01 by Univ of California Press This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. |Family Romance| was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance. This Book was ranked at 23 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of The Family Romance of the French Revolution's Books is JSpEn_SvVyAC, Book which was written byLynn Hunthave ETAG "Hl6WTT8sOuw" Book whic...

Modernization from the Other Shore By:David C. Engerman Published on 2009-06 by Harvard University Press From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy. American intellectuals from George Kennan to Samuel Harper to Calvin Hoover understood Russian events in terms of national character. Many of them used stereotypes of Russian passivity, backwardness, and fatalism to explain the need for--and the costs of--Soviet economic development. These costs included devastating famines that lef...

The Winged Gospel By:Joseph J. Corn Published on 2002 by JHU Press Exploring these early years of aviation, Joseph Corn describes the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became American heroes. This Book was ranked at 39 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of The Winged Gospel's Books is FlgA-V7aB1YC, Book which was written byJoseph J. Cornhave ETAG "thFwkONqqhw" Book which was published by JHU Press since 2002 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780801869624 and ISBN 10 Code is 0801869625 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "184 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "" This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview

Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England By:Michael Johnston,Michael Robert Johnston Published on 2014-05 by Oxford University Press Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England sheds new light on Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in late medieval England. Romances are the predecessors to modern science fiction and Westerns: like these genres, they are often thought of as representative of the |popular culture| of their day. This book, however, offers a different perspective on the genre of medieval English romance, showing that, in fact, suchtexts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility. To make this case, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England examines surviving manuscripts, surveys recentwork by historians on the gentry, and provides analyses of the literary texts, all of which, together, shows this genre speaking to this social class. This Book was ranked at 35 by Google Bo...

Romance for Sale in Early Modern England By:Steve Mentz Published on 2006 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier. This Book was ranked at 13 by Google Books for keyword romance. Book ID of Romance for Sale in Early Modern England's Books is -hMhKOo-cz0C, Book which was written bySteve Mentzhave ETAG "py6J6LR07Kk" Book which was published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. since 2006 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780...