The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who ma... more »

Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name "Henry". Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to He... more »

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. D'Artagnan, printed - as were most of the works of that per... more »

On Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the little town of Loudun, especially in the narrow streets which led to the church of Saint-Pierre in the marketplace, from t... more »

News of the appearance of the plague in the house of Costobarus traveled fast after the death of the gardener, who had fallen in the open and in sight of the watchful inhabitants of Ascalon. So b... more »

A one-eyed man with a stuffed crocodile upon his head paused before the steps of Cairo's gayest hotel and his expectant gaze ranged hopefully over the thronged verandas. It was afternoon tea time... more »

Some twenty and odd years ago there stood a little cabin at the foot of a round hill, that very much resembled a cupola in shape, and which, from its position and height, commanded a prospect of ... more »

A man enveloped in a handsome grey cloak groped through a dark alley which led into the fashionable district of the Rue de Béthisy. From time to time he paused, with a hand to his ear, as if list... more »

"The Texan Star," while a complete story in itself, is the first of three, projected by the author, and based upon the Texan struggle for liberty against the power of Mexico. This revolution, epi... more »

Count Francesco battles the forces of the Duke for the attentions of the Prince's niece in this rousing adventure that reminds us of the Romance in Adventure. Sabatini's Love-at-Arms is an exuber... more »

Sir Oliver Tressilian is betrayed by his brother and sold into slavery, and spurned by the woman he loves. Escaping the slavers, he becomes the leader of the Barbary pirates of Algiers. Now is th... more »

André-Louis Moreau, a young man of unknown parentage, has good prospects as a country lawyer in pre-revolutionary France. But an unfair duel with a ruthlessly cruel aristocrat, the Count de La To... more »

Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pir... more »

A mad run through 17th Century France with swordfights, rebellions, disguise, identity theft, and an extremely star-crossed love affair between a leading courtier of Louis XIII (Bardelys, known as "... more »

Dit boek  beschrijft de vier maanden april-augustus 1944, die zowel voor het Derde Rijk als voor Speer een beslissende periode zijn geweest.     Deze psychologische roman beziet de gebeu... more »

On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror.

The King of England is Dead! Murdered by a treasonous Parliament, beheaded and buried in a desecrated grave. His son, the rightful King Charles II, is a fugitive, living in exile in Scotland surroun... more »

Der Antoninuswall ist zwar zerstört - aber auch die keltischen Stämme. Verzweifelt begibt sich die schöne, eigensinnige Keltin Neeve auf die Suche nach den beiden Menschen, die ihr alles bedeuten: i... more »

The man of her dreams. His hair was the color of the sun at dawn, his eyes as green as the hills in spring. When she came upon the virile stranger in the dark cave, proud spirited Deborah knew ... more »

Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained e... more »

In the 1935 Ozarks, Claudia begins to a new school with an optimistic name, New Hope. Having been jilted causes her to dedicate her life to her students. Her life, and that of two favorite students ... more »

Morgan McCall was long, lean, and mean--and he didn't care who knew it. It took a hard man to tame a city of sin on the plains with nothing more than his fists and a rawhide whip. Kate Stewart ... more »

Gaynell McGowan, forced to spend the summer of 1963 in her little town of Beulah, Alabama, returns home from college to face a provincial purgatory until classes resume in the fall. But history is a... more »

It is 1613 and Heidelberg greets the dawn of a promising, magical age as it welcomes a beautiful English princess. But the promise is false and soon all of central Europe writhes in rebellion and wa... more »