Showing results for "The State of Europe" in Literature & Fiction

From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America, and her lasting legacy. In the popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretender's Lady, Alan Gold's meticulously researched novel, accurately opens history's pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today - Flora MacDonald.

Mark Twain und Europa: 14 Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten. Auf ausgedehnten Reisen hat Twain seinen Landsfrauen und -männern die Eigenwilligkeiten der "Alten Welt" nahegebracht. Die gnadenlose Effizienz der Deutschen, die Verschrobenheit der Briten, die Geschäftstüchtigkeit der Italiener, die Eigenwilligkeit der Franzosen: Mark Twain behandelt sie alle gerecht - alle bekommen gleichermaßen seinen Spott zu spüren.

Published in 1791, Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man defended the French Revolution’s values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. He argued that a government based on justice ought to support mankind’s civil rights relating to security and protection, as well as the natural rights to life, liberty, and freedom of conscience. He also proposed plans for universal education, pensions, poverty relief, and social welfare in this classic work that was widely read across the West.