The Mulberry Empire
| Author | : Philip Hensher |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Afghan Wars |
| ISBN | : 9780007112265 |
The Mulberry Empire Or The Two Virtuous Journeys Of The Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
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The Mulberry Empire
| Author | : Philip Hensher |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307429016 |
With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre. At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, princes and deserters, all brilliantly and sympathetically realized. At once stirring and harrowing, exotic and cautionary, and as vividly colored as a Persian miniature, the result is a tour de force of re-creation and invention.
The Mulberry Empire
| Author | : Philip Hensher |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2003-10-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1400030897 |
With Tolstoyan sweep and Dickensian vitality, this epically involving historical novel relates England’s tragic adventure in Afghanistan, which began with the triumphant arrival of the Army of the Indus in 1839 and ended three years later in rout and massacre. At the center of The Mulberry Empire is Alexander Burnes, a Scots explorer who travels to the unfathomably remote kingdom of Afghanistan and first befriends and then reluctantly betrays its wise and impeccably courteous Amir. But he is only one character in a cast that includes ladies and generals, princes and deserters, all brilliantly and sympathetically realized. At once stirring and harrowing, exotic and cautionary, and as vividly colored as a Persian miniature, the result is a tour de force of re-creation and invention.
The Sign of Four
| Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2010-07-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1460401727 |
Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian ‘Mutiny’ to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes’ own Baker Street. This Broadview Edition places Doyle’s tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies.
Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture
| Author | : Nadine Boehm-Schnitker |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2014-06-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134614691 |
This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories, technologies and achievements, as well as the injustices and atrocities, of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that, in many ways, contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires, imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts, discourses and traumas, this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, contemporary literature, and neo-Victorianism, with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias, Cora Kaplan, Elizabeth Ho, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings, the resurrection of cultural icons, and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture.
The Contemporary British Historical Novel
| Author | : M. Boccardi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2009-06-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230240801 |
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
White Mughals
| Author | : William Dalrymple |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : British |
| ISBN | : 9780007112265 |
From the early sixteenth century, it was common for British colonizers in India to embarrass the Crown by "turning Turk" or "going native." Few caused greater scandal than James Kirkpatrick, a British resident in the Court of Hyderabad, who converted to Islam and spied on the East India Company in the midst of an affair with Khair un-Nissa, the great-niece of the region's prime minister. White Moguls is rich with many eccentric characters, from "Hindoo Stuart," who traveled with his own team of Brahmins, to Alexander Gardner, an American whose self-invented costume was showcased by a tartan turban with egret plumes. A remarkable love story set in an exotic and previously unexplored world, White Moguls is full of secrets, intrigue, espionage, and religious disputes.
Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
| Author | : Mohan Lal |
| Publisher | : Arkose Press |
| Total Pages | : 564 |
| Release | : 2015-11-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781346228679 |
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Life of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
| Author | : Mohan Lal |
| Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781230232447 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... 440 THE REBEL CHIEFS. outbreak, was soon sensible of his error and the dilemma in which he was placed. He was consequently very unwilling to proceed; and therefore he put it off from day to day, hoping that the reinforcements from India might soon arrive, and that he might then co-operate with them to destroy the enemy. The rebels began to suspect him for being friendly disposed to the British; and Mir Haji, the fanatic priest of Kabul, pitched out his tent, and proclaimed his avowed intention of proceeding to Jelalabad, and inviting all the Musulmans to join him. The Navab Mohammed Zaman Khan was secretly intriguing with the Haji against the Amin Ullah, and at the same time desirous to become a powerful man in Kabul. All the nobles insisted upon the Shah marching with the Haji; and the Navab sent his wife at night to the King in the palace, with a written agreement in the Qoran that he was devotedly attached to his Majesty, and will faithfully promote the interest of his government. On this assurance of the Navab Mohammed Zaman Khan, the head of the Barakzais, being conveyed and communicated to his Majesty by a female of such distinction as his (the Navib's) wife, he fixed the day of his march for the THE SHAH FIRED UPON. 441 5th of April. Shuja-ul-Daulah, whether with the knowledge of his father the Navab or not, but certainly instigated by the Sardar Mohammed Usman Khan, and by the Navab Jabbar Khan, on the one hand, and incensed at the appointment of the son of the Amin Ullah Khan as governor of the city during the absence of the Shah and the chiefs, on the other, determined to revenge himself upon the Shah, and thus to gain a higher name than Mohammed Akbar Khan did in murdering Sir William Macnaghten. He consulted with some...
