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Series
Publisher
Methuen
Pub. Date
1914.
Language
English
Description
This 1914 volume covers the history of England between the years 1603 and 1714, tracing the Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution, and detailing how English traditions of liberty and representative democracy triumphed over the attempts of the Stuarts to establish a more absolutist monarchy. Trevelyan's novel-esque style is captivating in this history.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
The diary of Samuel Pepys is like no other book in the world. One reason is that its writer had no idea of making a book at all. He never dreamed of human eyes falling upon his blessedly frank and naked page. The record was a secret between himself and his own soul. To those who love humanity and vivid, unconscious writing, it is infinitely delightful and precious.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into...
