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Victorien Sardou

The plot centers around the character of La Sorcière, a woman accused of practicing dark magic. The story takes place in a time when belief in witchcraft and sorcery was rampant, and the play delves into the paranoia and societal tension of the period. The protagonist, a powerful and enigmatic sorceress, becomes entangled in a love affair with a nobleman, Le Duc de Navarre, whose ambition and political maneuvering set the stage for dramatic conflict. As the play unfolds, the sorceress is c...

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Victorien Sardou and Ange Galdemar

Step into the tumultuous world of the French Revolution with Victorien Sardou's "Robespierre: The Story of Victorien Sardou's Play Adapted and Novelized Under His Authority." Explore a gripping tale that vividly brings to life the dramatic events and complex characters of one of history's most turbulent periods.Join Victorien Sardou and Ange Galdemar as they reimagine the life and legacy of Maximilien Robespierre, a central figure in the French Revolution. Throug...

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Victorien Sardou and Ange Galdemar

Step into the tumultuous world of the French Revolution with Victorien Sardou's Robespierre: The Story of Victorien Sardou's Play Adapted and Novelized Under His Authority. Explore a gripping tale that vividly brings to life the dramatic events and complex characters of one of history's most turbulent periods.Join Victorien Sardou and Ange Galdemar as they reimagine the life and legacy of Maximilien Robespierre, a central figure in the French Revolution. Through me...

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Victorien Sardou

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Marcus Locke

Dive into the world of intrigue, romance, and high stakes with The Black Pearl by Victorien Sardou, narrated by Marcus Locke. This gripping tale combines mystery and sophistication, following a story of passion, betrayal, and the allure of a priceless black pearl. Set against a backdrop of opulence and drama, Sardou’s vivid storytelling transports listeners to a lavish 19th-century world filled with unforgettable characters and twists.Marcus Locke’s compelling narration ca...

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Frantz Funck-Brentano, Victorien Sardou, Introduction, George Maidment, Translator

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSIntroductionCHAPTER I The ArchivesCHAPTER II History of the BastilleCHAPTER III Life in the BastilleCHAPTER IV The Man in the Iron MaskCHAPTER V Men of Letters in the BastilleI. VOLTAIREII. LA BEAUMELLEIII. THE ABBÉ MORELLETIV. MARMONTELV. LINGUETVI. DIDEROTVII. THE MARQUIS DE MIRABEAU

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José Saramago

From the Nobel Prize-winning author: "A capacious, funny, threatening novel" of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal ( The New York Times Book Review) .The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojou...

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Jan Potocki

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of ha...

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Carlos Fuentes, Milan Kundera

From one of Mexico's most revered authors, an award-winning epic novel exploring history, culture, and the human condition.Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation—the total work of art.

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Arturo Perez-Reverte

Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series.The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood” and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family...

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Anonymous, Jessica Knauss

A heartwarming tale of love and friendship in a time when no one could imagine anything but war. This is a classic story of the exotic landscape of medieval Spain, written about 1551, in a new, easy to read English translation. Abindarráez is so in love with beautiful Jarifa that when he is taken prisoner by Rodrigo de Narváez, he asks to be freed for only two days so that he can marry her. What happens next shows that love and friendship are stronger than war, even during the final stages...

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Lope de Vega, Gwynne Edwards

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Oxford World's Classics

Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, combine the serious and the comic in their desire to imitate life. Fuente Ovejuna, bas...

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Thornton Wilder

First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of a horrific collapse of an Incan rope bridge in Peru and how they came to be on the bridge on that fateful day. Set in the early 18th century, the novel begins with a description of the bridge’s collapse, which claimed the lives of all five people who...