My Own Affairs

My Own Affairs
Author: Louise (Princess of Belgium)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1921
Genre: Courts and courtiers
ISBN:

Bound By Her Shocking Secret / His Majesty's Hidden Heir

Bound By Her Shocking Secret / His Majesty's Hidden Heir
Author: Abby Green
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Billionaires
ISBN: 9780263282665

Her secret revealed... His ring refused! It takes all of Mia's courage to tell tycoon Daniel about their daughter. Though tragedy tore them apart, he deserves to know he's a father. But accepting his proposal...? That will require something far more extraordinary... Reunited, claimed...crowned?

The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers

The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
Author: Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752401052

Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2019-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1760785202

With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1901
Genre:
ISBN:

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians
Author: Woislav M. Petrovitch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1914
Genre: Folk literature, Serbian
ISBN:

A collection of Serbian folk tales preceded by background to the history and cultural traditions of the Slavic people, including short essays on good and evil spirits, vampires, superstition, Christmas Eve, wedding rites, etc.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Author: Anna Leonowens
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2009-08-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429040149

Such was Chow Phya Sri Sury Wongse when I was first presented to him: a natural king among the dusky forms that surrounded him, the actual ruler of that semi- barbarous realm, and the prime contriver of its arbitrary policy. Black, but comely, robust, and vigorous, neck short and thick, nose large and nostrils wide, eyes inquisitive and penetrating, his was the massive brain proper to an intellect deliberate and systematic. Well found in the best idioms of his native tongue, he expressed strong, discriminative thoughts in words at once accurate and abundant. His only vanity was his English, with which he so interlarded his native speech, as often to impart the effect of levity to ideas that, in themselves, were grave, judicious, and impressive.