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41) Vindication
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1994, ©1993
Language
English
Description
Vindication is a prodigious, spectacular debut - a whirlwind of a novel that offers a passionate and surprising vision of life and love through the lens of the turbulent, romantic, often brutal eighteenth century.
"Sherwood's heralded debut is an arresting and convincing portrayal of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman and perhaps the first feminist. Lending her subject a modern sensibility, Sherwood...
Author
Series
Scarlet Pimpernel series volume 7
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliott enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover the Duke of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790s frighteningly begins. Their friendship unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes. Soon, Grace urges the Duke not to make a horrifying decision. But ultimately she's unable to prevent several bloody fates--including the...
48) Scaramouche
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Disguised as a stage clown, Andre Moreau perfects his skill as a swordsman in order to strike a blow for the French Revolution.
50) A refuge assured
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard never imagined her craft could threaten her life. Yet in revolutionary France, it is a death sentence when the nobility, and those associated with them, are forced to the guillotine. Vivienne flees to Philadelphia but finds the same dangers lurking in the French Quarter, as revolutionary sympathizers threaten the life of a young boy left in her care, who some suspect to be the Dauphin. Can the French settlement, Azilum,...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2008, c1998
Language
English
Description
It is the height of the French Revolution's reign of terror, Sir Percy Blakeney has a secret. By day, he is just another foppish British aristocrat. By night, he becomes the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel, a "caped crusader" for the 18th century who forms a secret league of followers to fight against the tyrants of the French Revolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
Kydd and fellow novice sailor Nicholas Renzi leave the lumbering Duke William for the sleek frigate Artemis and promptly find themselves in cutthroat battle again, overmatched against the French frigate Citoyenne. The face-off ends in hand-to-hand combat and a hard-won victory for the men of the Artemis, but an act of desertion threatens both the valued friendship of Renzi and Kydd and their futures with the Artemis.
Author
Series
Kydd sea adventures volume 1
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Young wig-maker Thomas Paine Kydd is impressed and forced to join the crew of a British battleship. He comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen. But can he accept the challenge himself to become a true sailor and defender of Britain?
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