Alexandre Dumas, (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870)[1] was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors... More > in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Born in poverty, Dumas was the grandson of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave.< Less
The purpose of this book is to give confidence and motivation. It has been written for those who want to make changes needed to be happy, successful, fulfilled and to reveal the genius within.... More > Football is used as an analogy to help the reader retain interest and the learning.< Less
Whether you grew up enjoying these Homemade Italian Cookies (or just wish you did) you'll want to add this cookbook, put together by a self-described sweet tooth anthropologist, to your collection.... More > It includes a baker's dozen worth of recipes (13) written for the novice baker. Double-page spreads also include kitchen secrets, difficulty ratings, assorted cookie names and identifying photographs for each cookie recipe!< Less
Whether you grew up enjoying these Homemade Italian Cookies (or just wish you did) you'll want to add this cookbook, put together by a self-described sweet tooth anthropologist, to your collection.... More > It includes a baker's dozen worth of recipes (13) written for the novice baker. Double-page spreads also include kitchen secrets, difficulty ratings, assorted cookie names and identifying photographs for each cookie recipe!< Less
This collection of the works of Stendhal, 1783-1842, contains the following books:
Armance: Some scenes from a salon in Paris in 1827, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century,... More > The Charterhouse of Parma, Vanina Vanini, The Abbess of Castro, The Cenci, The Duchess of Palliano, Vittoria Accoramboni< Less
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) , (Volume I and II), was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance.... More >
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when one of them commits a violent crime of passion. Hawthorne's final novel is "must read" for its symbolic narrative of the Fall of Man.
The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is being pursued by a mysterious, threatening model; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism; and Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni, who is compared to Adam, resembles the Faun of Praxiteles, and is probably only half human< Less
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) , (Volume I and II), was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance.... More >
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when one of them commits a violent crime of passion. Hawthorne's final novel is "must read" for its symbolic narrative of the Fall of Man.
The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is being pursued by a mysterious, threatening model; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism; and Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni, who is compared to Adam, resembles the Faun of Praxiteles, and is probably only half human< Less
