The Emperors Tomb

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590208447
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radetzky March written by Joseph Roth and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer

Author : Patrick Samphire
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0805099107
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of Mars written by Patrick Samphire and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing Martian. A sinister plot. A Napoleonic spy. . . Boundless adventures await in Book 2 of The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb middle grade sci-fi series! If Edward thought life was going to be easy in Lunae City, he was very, very wrong. The moment he intercepts a thief escaping from Lady Harleston’s town house, he is caught in a terrible scheme that threatens all of Mars. Soon he’s fighting off vicious sea serpents, battling a small army of heavily armored thugs, and trying to unpick an impossible mystery. Edward doesn’t know whom he can trust. Will he make the right choice? Or will his family—and his entire planet—fall victim to the treacherous Emperor of Mars? A Christy Ottaviano Book

Author : I N Khan (Arshi)
Publisher : Black Taj Project
ISBN 13 : 8192747905
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BLACK TAJ MAHAL written by I N Khan (Arshi) and published by Black Taj Project. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is related to one of the most beautiful architecture of the world; the Taj Mahal. It has been scientifically portrayed in the book that makes it a useful guide for the tourists. The most beautiful architectural creation has been analysed from completely new angle, using the empirical rules prepared by a modern scientist - “The Fifteen Properties of Christopher Alexander”. The book sheds light on an age old story of another mausoleum of black marble that was to be built on the other bank of the river Yamuna. The construction of the Taj Mahal was only half of the original grand scheme conceived by its builder emperor Shahjahan. The historical events towards the end of emperor Shah Jahan’s reign, his dethroning and the conspiracies by his own son are highlighted. The book also covers the history of Mughal dynasty in a narrative manner. It traces the inherited quality of creativity and love for art and architecture of Mughals. The book puts into perspective the need of fulfilling a forgotten dream - the creation of Miniature Black Taj Mahal with ebony (natural black wood).

Author : J. L. McCreedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988236967
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Frye and the Emperor's Tomb written by J. L. McCreedy and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, suspense and a touch of quantum mechanics, the third installment in the Liberty Frye series finds Libby and her gang marooned on the shores of ancient China ... where they must seek the aid of an invisible wizard ... who may or may not hold the secrets to time travel. Easy, right?

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368001440
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tyrant's Tomb written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not easy being Apollo, especially when you've been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles and reclaiming his godly powers, Apollo (aka Lester Papadopoulos) has faced both triumphs and tragedies. Now his journey takes him to Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors. Hazel, Reyna, Frank, Tyson, Ella, and many other old friends will need Apollo's aid to survive the onslaught. Unfortunately, the answer to their salvation lies in the forgotten tomb of a Roman ruler . . . someone even worse than the emperors Apollo has already faced.

Author : Ronald T. Ridley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Retrospect written by Ronald T. Ridley and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus' Res Gestae, inscribed on two pillars at the entrance to the emperor's tomb, is a unique text that still provokes debate concerning its translation and interpretation.

Author : Steve Berry
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250140315
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warsaw Protocol written by Steve Berry and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder—blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to the Polish people, and then on to the auction itself. But nothing goes as planned and Malone is thrust into a bloody battle between three nations over information that, if exposed, could change the balance of power in Europe. From the tranquil canals of Bruges, to the elegant rooms of Wawel Castle, to deep beneath the earth into an ancient Polish salt mine, Malone is caught in the middle of a deadly war—the outcome of which turns on a secret known as the Warsaw Protocol.

Author : Steve Berry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345505506
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape) written by Steve Berry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he’s shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who’s saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: Bring me the artifact she’s asked you to keep safe. The only problem is, Malone doesn’t have a clue what the man is talking about, since Cassiopeia has left nothing with him. So begins Malone’s most harrowing adventure to date—one that offers up astounding historical revelations, pits him against a ruthless ancient brotherhood, and sends him from Denmark to Belgium to Vietnam then on to one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world: the tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, which has inexplicably remained sealed for more than two thousand years—its mysteries about to be revealed. DON’T MISS A SNEAK PEEK OF STEVE BERRY’S NEW NOVEL, THE JEFFERSON KEY, IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK.

Author : Patrick Samphire
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0805099077
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Dragon Tomb written by Patrick Samphire and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology. Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan has always dreamed of becoming a spy like the ones he reads of in his favorite sci-fi magazine, Thrilling Martian Tales. Instead, he spends his days keeping his eccentric family from complete disaster . . . that is, until the villainous archeologist, Sir Titus Dane, kidnaps Edward's parents as part of a scheme to loot an undiscovered dragon tomb. Edward sets out on a perilous journey to save his parents and protect the dragon tombs in the process. Turns out spywork is a bit more challenging than he had imagined. . . .

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811221288
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emperor's Tomb written by Joseph Roth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensely beautiful book about one of history’s bleakest periods The Emperor’s Tomb – the last novel Joseph Roth wrote – is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically evocative paean to the passing of time and the loss of hope. The Emperor’s Tomb runs from 1913 to 1938, from the eve of one world war to the eve of the next, from disaster to disaster. Striped with beauty and written in short propulsive chapters – full of upheavals, reversals and abrupt twists of plot – the novel powerfully sketches a time of change and loss. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth tells of one man’s foppish, sleepwalking, spoiled youth and then his struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna, financial ruin, and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.