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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?T...

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...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ...ory and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in India, but it is an irrevocable fact th... ...a Trust for the family and heirs of Chandra Lal, a Thuggee leader who had been apprehended by the British for his foul deeds. On the day before his ... ...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...Philosophy, Willamette University oices from the Past is a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progres... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson... ... The White House April 14, 1865 —rain— Mary invited Laura Keene, the British actress, to tea. She is in her forties— rather pretty. Dressed in d... ...nced in she made over him. He took to her, laughing hilari- ously over her British accent as she asked him to solve a riddle. “Say it again, pretty l...

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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ... together with the Burma National Army, to the Allies, and worked closely with the British, whom he hitherto claimed to have been fighting for inde... ...w.greenheart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...n. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in A...

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...-supporting Jews.” He paused, as if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration ... ... Business Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jingoistic action against the Jews’. British political commentators concurred: ‘Herr Hitler has not in... ...” A gun butt in the kidney hurts like hell, exactly as they say it does in dime novels and B movies. It feels like a stiletto plunged deep and th... ... tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentration camps. We prom... ...ced moles everywhere: the OSS, later the CIA, not to mention the Communist-infested British MI6. It looked hopeless until someone came with the idea...

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...Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between Britain and Russia for control over Asia....

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...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations... ...glish flag, for during the expedition at least they were in the service of the British government. The effort was a signal success. Jamaica was taken,... ...ition to the extent of declining to allow Mansvelt to recruit his forces from British volunteers for the proposed raid on the Spanish territory. Sore...

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...Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of...

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...ich occurred was the project of that complete and corrected edition of his Novels and Romances (whose real parentage had of necessity been dis- closed... ...s to preserve my incognito on the subject of what were called the Waverley Novels? I did not immediately see the purpose of his lordship’s question, a... ...oposing my health to the meeting, to say something on the subject of these Novels so strongly connecting them with me as the author, that by remaining... ...d respectable company assembled, as the sole and un- aided author of these Novels of Waverley, the paternity of which was likely at one time to have f... ..., London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these Novels. (Aug. 1831.)] had said, upon the appearance of the work, that he wa... ...ure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the ... ...abroad a conducteur; or might be compared to the sailing-master on board a British ship of war, who follows out after his own manner the course which ... ...ive tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the British army. In this occupation she spent many hours of each morning and e...

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...to do, ex- cept a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She thought study would b... ...ging. Daugh- ters were not like sons. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions.... ...Wells about so much.” “Y es. That’s about the beginning. It’s these damned novels. All this torrent of misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the ... ...hance. Men are against her. Whatever she does is mini- mized. All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady no... ...ot look to right or left again. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea- Table Company shop to get some tea. And as she was yet waiting... ... it said. Then he sat down again in a chair and said that people who wrote novels ought to be strung up. It was as much as I could do to prevent him f... ...erself anxious to read more of him, and the next Wednesday she went to the British Museum and hunted first among the half-crown magazines for his essa... ... nity, and spent most of the intervening time in the Assyrian Court of the British Museum, reading and thinking over a little book upon the feminist m...

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...ed to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and she affirmed that the British laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance... ...ibrary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. P... ...orms that puzzled him. She questioned him immensely about England, about the British CHAPTER 6 43 constitution, the English character, the state of p... ... I don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe t... ... novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal of ability, but I don’t suppose they’re very acc... ...ity, but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once had a lady who wrote novels staying here; she was a friend of Ralph’s and he asked her down. S... ...e two amused themselves, time and again, with talking of the attitude of the British public as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to i... ...as if the young lady had been in a position to appeal to it; but in fact the British public remained for the present profoundly indifferent to Miss Is... ...y. Isabel presently found herself in the singular situation of defending the British constitution against her aunt; Mrs. Touchett having formed the ha...

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...ome fun. But a plague of odes, and ballads, and driveling meditations, and novels with wide margins, pervades the sofas and the atmosphere.” “I don’t ... ...eshing coolness to the atmosphere of any room in which a certain number of British females are gathered together. The young men grew serious as a coup... ... colors, and always appeared at balls adorned with the turban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in Fran...

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... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout... ...“You (un- profitable matter, and printing it would lead to a censorship of novels)! You know I got a weak chess!” The pole took him in the throat and ...

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...ure.” “You should learn, Miss Brough,” said her father. “The daughter of a British merchant need not be ashamed of the means by which her father gets ... ..., genteel society has been fully described already by vari- ous authors of novels, whose names need not here be set down, but who, being themselves co...

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...s too common and vulgar; for what else is the subject of all the romances, novels, plays, and poems, with which the stalls abound? Many exquisite vi ... ...lf of the species. In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreig...

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...d practised in a pistol-gallery. The rest of his time was spent in reading novels, for his father would never have allowed the more abstruse studies n... ...will, and how to strike. See how we stand politically. My father is in the British ministry; we shall have close relations with Spain through the Evan...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...ge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think ... ...vely , to hold together and maintain any institution for co-operation. The British Press may be too silly not to foster irritation and sus- picion; we... ...onism on a larger scale trading on the resuscitation of dying hatreds; the British and Russian diplomatists may play annoying tricks upon one another ... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who...

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...e is at this very time (1854), and has been for twenty years, passing over British society. Multitudes of per- sons are becoming ashamed of saying, ‘m... ...dle out; put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a muti... ...he seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they ... ... his avenging dagger. These sort of people were not the sort to frighten a British Ministry. One laughs at the probable conversation between an old hu... ...phocles was judi- ciously chosen as the particular medium for conveying to British minds a first impression, and a representative im- 105 Thomas de Q... ...for unrealizing the effects of dramatic situations: 1. We may see, even in novels and prose comedies, a keen attention paid to the inspiriting and dre...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...ch attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, within the same category, the inim... ...e sued. It appeared that this artless young rustic, who had never heard of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vic... ...n general—to peasants even more than to gentlemen—in our English plays and novels, is a childish and fantastic babble, belonging to no form of real br... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...“House;” he is offi- cially brought into connection with all orders of the British aristocracy—often with royal personages; and with the younger branc... ...who have no personal access to their presence. In the fabulous pictures of novels (such novels as once abounded), and in newspaper reports of conversa... ...aven prevent!—the German tenure of professorships were substituted for our British one: that is, if for independent and liberal teachers were substitu...

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...ncouragement to many others to undertake the like. Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impover... ...ons who have scrupled to aim at both: and if we examine the ro mances and novels with which the world abounds, I think we may fairly conclude, that m... ...demands numbers, or something like numbers: whereas, to the composition of novels and ro mances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with ... ...s and the women. This young fellow lay in bed reading one of Mrs. Behn’s novels; for he had been instructed by a friend that he would find no more e... ...n the mystery of boxing: where the whole theory and practice of that truly British art, with all the various stops, blows, cross buttocks, &c., incid... ...raw a curtain over those that have been lately set forth in certain French novels; very bungling copies of which have been presented us here under the...