A. N. Wilson
Author
Language
English
Description
Wilson explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria's coronation, her strange and isolated childhood, her passionate marriage to Prince Albert and his pivotal influence even after death and her widowhood and subsequent intimate friendship with her Highland servant John Brown, all set against the backdrop of a momentous epoch in Britain's history -- and the world's.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities. Acclaimed author A.N. Wilson starts at the beginning, when London was founded by the Romans, and continues to contemporary times, hitting all the historical highlights along the way. London is the perfect starter book for anyone wishing to understand this great city a little better, and even seasoned London fans will find new information here.
3) Hitler
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it, and an entire people, in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. In this masterful account of Hitlers life, biographer A.N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man behind the mythic figure, shedding new light on Hitler's personality, his desires, and his complex relationship with the German people.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Language
English
Description
As biographer Wilson makes clear in this narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of exegesis, scholarship, and ceremony stripped away, is a Jew, a fastidious and fervent Jew, who would lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism. It is Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion. In Wilson's narrative, which lays...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died--an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit...
6) Tabitha
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1989, ©1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Five episodes in the lives of Pufftail, father of many cats, his favorite daughter Tabitha the gray tabby, and the other cats of their neighborhood.
7) Dracula
Author
Language
English
Description
During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady --...
8) Ivanhoe
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft -- but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. The wicked Prince John plots to usurp England's...
9) Tolstoy
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 572 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) The Victorians
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 724 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vi, 312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of Young British" novelists, and Literary Editor of the Spectator, we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father, the Managing Director of Wedgwood, the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school, and the dons of Oxford - one of whom, at the age of just 20, he married, Katherine Duncan-Jones, the renowned Shakespearean scholar. The book begins with his heart-torn present-day visits to Katherine,...
14) Hearing voices
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1774, Josiah Wedgwood, master craftsman possessed with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great. Josiah's nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah's late, great creation: the Portland Vase. As the family fortune is made, and...
16) Wise virgin
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983, c1982
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
