Robert Hugh Benson:
By What Authority? - libri usati
1930, ISBN: bc604f050914f76abf25954ba1904896
MP3 Audio CD. This is a story of the son of an officer in Scotland, who is put into prison for aiding a Jacobite mediator. This took place at the time of the Jacobite uprising in Scotland… Altro …
MP3 Audio CD. This is a story of the son of an officer in Scotland, who is put into prison for aiding a Jacobite mediator. This took place at the time of the Jacobite uprising in Scotland in 1755, the boy triumphantly flees and goes to France and tells all his unbelievable life experiences with Prince Charlie. Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fonetnoy and Culloden include chapter stories on: The Return of a Prodigal; The Jacobite Agent; Free; In France; Dettingen; The Convent of Our Lady; Mother!; Hidden Foes; Fontenoy; A Perilous Journey; Free; The End of the Quarrel; Prince Charles; Prestonpans; A Mission; The March to Derby; A Baffled Plot; Culloden; Fugitives; and Happy Days. George Alfred Henty was a creative author and war correspondent. He is most popular for his old adventure fiction that were renowned in the later years of the 19th century. Some of his books are The Dragon & The Raven, For The Temple, Under Drake's Flag and In Freedom's Cause. G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He had poor health as a child who had to spend most of the time in bed. Although he was often sick, he was an eager reader and had a vast variety of hobbies which he brought into as a grownup man. He studied at Westminster School, London, and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was enthusiastically into sports. G. A. Henty's viable fame inspired other authors to write youthful adventure fiction in his way of writing; "Herbert Strang", Henry Everett McNeil, Percy F. Westerman and Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton all made stories in "the Henty tradition", frequently integrating later modern topics including air travel and World War I warfare. In 1930s, though, significance in Henty's writings was decreasing in Britain, and thus some juvenile?s authors there pored over to his books as an example., 0, MP3 Audio CD. The locals of the Netherlands were fearful under the vicious colony of Spain. Although some people want to be uncontrolled of Spanish domination, attempts at revolt are declining, and no other nations would save them. Edward ?Ned? Martin, son of a British captain and a Dutch lass, is pushed into the divergence when he agrees to aid his mother?s populace and seek redress for his relatives who were brutally killed. Enlisting the service of the revolutionary leader William the Silent, Prince of Orange, Ned is tasked upon to do risky stealthy missions in a subjugated territory. Past the small margin fleets, intense sea battles, frightening blockades, and bold rescues, Ned was an onlooker to the rousing and tragic occurrences of the ascent of the Dutch republic. George Alfred Henty was a creative author and war correspondent. He is most popular for his old adventure fiction that were renowned in the later years of the 19th century. Some of his books are The Dragon & The Raven, For The Temple, Under Drake's Flag and In Freedom's Cause. G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He had poor health as a child who had to spend most of the time in bed. Although he was often sick, he was an eager reader and had a vast variety of hobbies which he brought into as a grownup man. He studied at Westminster School, London, and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was enthusiastically into sports. G. A. Henty's viable fame inspired other authors to write youthful adventure fiction in his way of writing; "Herbert Strang", Henry Everett McNeil, Percy F. Westerman and Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton all made stories in "the Henty tradition", frequently integrating later modern topics including air travel and World War I warfare. In 1930s, though, significance in Henty's writings was decreasing in Britain, and thus some juvenile?s authors there pored over to his books as an example., 0, MP3 Audio CD. Conspiracy, trickery, deception, manslaughter, outlaws - An English soldier in India has illegally taken a priceless diamond bracelet from a Hindu ideal. The precious jewelry belongs to Colonel Thorndyke, who is then went back to England, where he passes away because of wounds inflicted and hands down the diamond bracelet to his family and relatives, having said to his brother of such incident, but not its exact place. In the intervening time, the burglar has made a fuss in their country India, and the Hindu devoted thought of it as their divine duty to repossess the charm at all rate. This novel also has another title "The Brahmin's Treasure". George Alfred Henty was a creative author and war correspondent. He is most popular for his old adventure fiction that were renowned in the later years of the 19th century. Some of his books are The Dragon & The Raven, For The Temple, Under Drake's Flag and In Freedom's Cause. G. A. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He had poor health as a child who had to spend most of the time in bed. Although he was often sick, he was an eager reader and had a vast variety of hobbies which he brought into as a grownup man. He studied at Westminster School, London, and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was enthusiastically into sports. G. A. Henty's viable fame inspired other authors to write youthful adventure fiction in his way of writing; "Herbert Strang", Henry Everett McNeil, Percy F. Westerman and Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton all made stories in "the Henty tradition", frequently integrating later modern topics including air travel and World War I warfare. In 1930s, though, significance in Henty's writings was decreasing in Britain, and thus some juvenile?s authors there pored over to his books as an example., 0, MP3 Audio CD. By What Authority? CHAPTER I THE SITUATION To the casual Londoner who lounged, intolerant and impatient, at the blacksmith's door while a horse was shod, or a cracked spoke mended, Great Keynes seemed but a poor backwater of a place, compared with the rush of the Brighton road eight miles to the east from which he had turned off, or the whirling cauldron of London City, twenty miles to the north, towards which he was travelling. The triangular green, with its stocks and horse-pond, overlooked by the grey benignant church-tower, seemed a tame exchange for seething Cheapside and the crowded ways about the Temple or Whitehall; and it was strange to think that the solemn-faced rustics who stared respectfully at the gorgeous stranger were of the same human race as the quick-eyed, voluble townsmen who chattered and laughed and grimaced over the news that came up daily from the Continent or the North, and was tossed to and fro, embroidered and discredited alternately, all day long. And yet the great waves and movements that, rising in the hearts of kings and politicians, or in the sudden strokes of Divine Providence, swept over Europe and England, eventually always rippled up into this placid country village; and the lives of Master Musgrave, who had retired upon his earnings, and of old Martin, who cobbled the ploughmen's shoes, were definitely affected and changed by the plans of far-away Scottish gentlemen, and the hopes and fears of the inhabitants of South Europe. Through all the earlier part of Elizabeth's reign, the menace of the Spanish Empire brooded low on the southern horizon, and a responsive mutter of storm sounded now and again from the north, where Mary Stuart reigned over men's hearts, if not their homes; and lovers of secular England shook their, 0<
