City of Eros

City of Eros
Author: Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393311082

Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.

Nineteenth-century American Western Writers

Nineteenth-century American Western Writers
Author: Robert L. Gale
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on American western writers of the nineteenth century. Many of these writers defy easy categorization, as some were soldiers, journalists, poets, fiction writers, naturalists and historians as well as artists. Conspicuous in their absence are dramatists. Discusses the many styles employed by the authors, including historical, scientific, military, realistic, naturalistic, powerful and humorous.

Seven Gothic Tales

Seven Gothic Tales
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1934
Genre: Danish fiction
ISBN: 9780394604961

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Shinju

Shinju
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307801187

When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro. Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy -- they were murder. Risking his family's good name and his own life, Sano will search for a killer across every level of society -- determined to find answers to a mystery no one wants solved. No one but Sano... As subtle and beautiful as the culture it evokes, Shinju vividly re-creates a world of ornate tearooms and guady pleasure-palaces, cloistered mountaintop convents and dealthy prisons. Part love story, part myster, Shinju is a tour that will dazzle and entertain all who enter its world. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laura Joh Rowland's The Shogun's Daughter.

Stalin's Agent

Stalin's Agent
Author: Boris Volodarsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199656584

This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.

The Armies of the Streets

The Armies of the Streets
Author: Adrian Cook
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813162556

In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time is a scholarly analysis of the Draft Riots, dealing with motives and with the reasons for the recurring civil disorders in nineteenth-century New York: the appalling living conditions, the corruption of the civic government, and the geographical and economic factors that led up to the social upheaval.