Stendhal 
Life of Henry Brulard [EPUB ebook] 

Since 1994, the UK »s National Lottery has created 2, 300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed wi …

This is a study of Li Hung-chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China »s modernisation; the Confucian as a …

The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses T …

This volume assembles ten studies of the life and work of Thomas Harriot (1560-1621). These are based on lectures that have been given annually at Oriel College, Oxford since 1990, by such …

In summer 2006 Helmand Province erupted into violence as NATO forces struggled to crush Taliban strongholds. For six weeks the Royal Irish Regiment and the Paras defended Sangin in the face of …

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By …

‘I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done.’ One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek isla …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway »s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson »s cruise to the cannibal-infested …