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Pages: 249
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Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: BWL Publishing Inc.
John White is a barrister trapped in a disastrous marriage. In 1792, he breaks loose and strikes out for a new life over the sea, leaving Marianne and his child
Language: en
Pages: 347
Pages: 347
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offere
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
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Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-15 - Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the pr