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(0)Stanley J Weyman
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Language
Finnish
Description
On vuosi 1588 Ranskassa. Gaston de Marsac on arvostettu sotilas, jonka elämässä asiat ovat kuitenkin menneet pahasti pieleen. Epätoivoisena de Marsac lähtee tapaamaan itse kuningasta toivoen, että tämä voisi auttaa häntä hankalassa tilanteessa. Kuninkaalla on kuin onkin de Marsacille tehtävä – mutta täysin erilainen kuin mitä de Marsac odotti. Kuningas tarvitsee nimittäin apua erään naisen kidnappaamisessa...
"Todellinen aatelismies"...
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Language
English
Description
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Stanley John Weyman:
• The Castle Inn
• Count Hannibal, A Romance of the Court of France
• From the Memoirs of a Minister of France
• A Gentleman of France
• The House of the Wolf A Romance
• In Kings' Byways
• The Long Night
• Under the Red Robe
• The Wild Geese
Author
Language
English
Description
Ovington's Bank' is set in 1825 and was published in 1922 but - as the Financial Crisis of 2007 demonstrates - is as relevant today as it ever was.
The story follows a run on a private bank and is based on the British Panic that saw 70 banks fail. As the financial fallout lands, the gentry and the business classes scramble to save themselves, while being forced to examine their morals and motives.
This pacey narrative features a mugging, a stagecoach...
6) The Snowball
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, a seemingly trivial turn of events can spiral into a huge mess. That's exactly what happens in Stanley J. Weyman's story The Snowball, in which a casually tossed clod of ice and snow sets off an international incident. Packed with political intrigue from start to finish, fans of fast-paced historical fiction will thoroughly enjoy it.
Author
Language
English
Description
Stanley John Weyman (1855-1928) was an English novelist most famous for his historical romances set in the turmoil of 16th- and 17th-century France.
In this story, when a position is granted to a member of the household of the King's beloved, which M. de Perrot had coveted for his own son, a round of intrigue begins. M. de Perrot enlists the narrator, M. de Rosny, to arrange for the king to stop at his house in Poissy for a glass of wine the next...