Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed \"The Red Virgin of Montmartre\"....

The perfect book for young readers looking to explore some of life\"s biggest questions. Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: \\\"What is real?\\\", \\\"What is everything made of?\\\", \\\"Why does evil exist?\\\", and \\\"What can I know?...

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания, созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible....

An altruist is my friend James Schuyler Grim, but he makes less noise than a panther on a dark night; and I never knew a man less given to persuading you. He has one purpose, but almost never talks about it....

Seen against the background of purple and dark-green gloom, with crimson torchlight flaring on the quiet water and the moon descending behind trees beyond them, they were mystically beautiful -- seemed not to belong to earth, anymore than the pan-pipe music did. "Ride into their midst!" Norbanus urged, pointing....

Having bested Higg and forced him to post bond of fifty thousand pounds as a promise of good behavior, "Jimgrim" must now help Higg if he wants him to hold to the agreement. He must take his force of twenty men and somehow subdue Higg's rival, Hassan Saoud, who calls himself the Avenger and commands an army of eight hundred....

Mundy biographer Peter Berresford Ellis described him as "one of the bestselling writers of adventure-fiction of his day", while Taves characterized him as "the most influential and enduring, if not the best-selling, writer of Eastern adventure of his day" ...

". . . the ingenuity of the plot, which leads up to a hair-raising finish . . . Yasmini, more a spirit personified than a person, an incarnation, with her songs and dances and pet cobras, of the charm and sorcery and fascination of the East . . . Mundy has managed to lift his story well of the region of ordinary detective excitement....

The underlying theme of the story is the nature of leadership, as Ranjoor Singh struggles to control his semi-rebellious force under conditions of great difficulty.Hira Singh was originally published (under the title Hira Singh's Tale) as a four-part serial in Adventure Magazine in October and November 1917 and published in book form in 1918....

Shall I speak of Zeitoon? This, then: the Turks never conquered it! They came once and built a fort on the opposite mountainside, with guns to overawe us all. We took their fort by storm! We threw their cannon down a thousand feet into the bed of the torrent, and there they lie today!...

If you haven't read Mundy before, brace yourself: He was an enormously popular writer in his day for damn good reason. The tales told in the east are mighty keen adventures. Three short stories by a master storyteller. ...

Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "New York, G. Scribner's Sons", 1914 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания....