The Black Velvet Gown

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Spisovateľ: Cookson Catherine
Vydavateľ: Corgi Books
Rok vydania: 1984
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Katalogové číslo: G3842

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Cudzojazyčná / Anglická

Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but Victoria's happiness was paramount to her. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come, a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their house... menší formát, brožovaná, v angličtine, 475 strán

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The Elephant - Lore of The Hindus

Spisovatel: Edgerton F., Motilal Banarsidass 1985
Katalogové číslo: F4564

This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the elephant-lore of Hindus. It consists primarily of a translation of the "Elephant-Sport" (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha, with notes, introduction, and glossary. The Matanga-Lila is without doubt the best available Sanskrit work on elephantology. It is a brief and succinct treatise in 263 stanzas, divided into twelve chapters of uneven length. Nothing is known of the Nilakantha who is mentioned as its author. According to the editor, Ganapati Sastri, the three manuscripts he used are about two hundred years old. But the work is probably very much older. For aught we know it may go back a thousand years or even to a much earlier date. This, however, is purely conjectural; all we can say is that there is no positive trace of modernity in the work. The elephant-lore of our text is based on a genuine traditional knowledge which grew up among those whose business it was to deal with elephants, and that this tradition has persisted to modern times.... v angličine, tvrdá väzba, 129 strán,menší formát

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Free Lance and the Field of Blood

Spisovatel: Stewart Paul, Hodder Children´s Books 2004
Katalogové číslo: E4407

The second book in the Free Lance series.Free Lance enlists in a tournament and cleans up in the jousting and broadsword fighting. That knight he is approached by none other than the King's daughter. She is being blackmailed and needs Free Lance's help. But the blackmailing knight is just a pawn in the dastardly archbishops' plans. Free Lance sets a trap, but captures more tan one treacherous rat. Has he at last bitten off more than he can chew? Full of drama and humour, this swashbuckling fantasy adventure by two of the leading exponents of the genre, sees the return of an action hero who is both charismatic and mysterious, and told in a laconic, Marlowesque first person narrative.... tvrdá väzba, malý formát, v angličtine, 120 strán

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Frank Skinner

Spisovatel: Skinner Brank , Arrow 2002
Katalogové číslo: J9863

If I'm considering buying a book, I always take it off the shelf and read the first paragraph. This, I think, gives you a pretty fair inkling as to whether you'll like it or not. So, imagine the pressure I'm feeling at the moment.... v angličtine, brožovaná, 394 strán