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Author : John Norris
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249659X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by John Norris and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fighting for honour has tragic consequences...
Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
Author : Andrea Pickens
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1614175306
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn (Intrepid Heroines Series, Book 4) written by Andrea Pickens and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Kirtland will do anything to see the man who cruelly assaulted her sister brought to justice—even point a pistol at the notorious Lord Killingworth. But her mistaken accusations result in grave injury to the earl's nephew. Now Eliza's sister—a noted healer—feels obliged to nurse the young man back to health, and Eliza has no choice but to help. Killingworth is not pleased with the arrangement. Tensions swirl between the four of them, until new bonds are discovered when evil strikes again and they must work together to fight a relentless enemy, who will stop at nothing to drive Killingworth away from his estate. INTREPID HEROINES SERIES, in order Code of Honor The Hired Hero A Stroke of Luck Pistols at Dawn SCANDALOUS SECRETS SERIES, in order The Banished Bride Lady of Letters The Major's Mistake LESSONS IN LOVE, in series order The Defiant Governess Second Chances The Storybook Hero
Author : Michele Ann Young
Publisher : Five Star (ME)
ISBN 13 : 9781594144608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Michele Ann Young and published by Five Star (ME). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fatal duel leaves Victoria Torrington destitute and at the mercy of a well-known rake, Simon St. John, Earl of Travis. Known as Satan to the ton, the earl has a past shadowed by secrets and a reputation for the luck of the devil. To Victoria's surprise, he declares she must select a bridegroom by the end of the London Season or he will choose one for her. Tired of irresponsible males dictating her life, Victoria disputes his authority. The couple deny a growing attraction to little effect. Beneath the earl's chilly exterior, Victoria senses an honorable and caring spirit. For all Victoria's seeming innocence, Simon knows the full extent of feminine wiles and tries to distance himself. Together they face an enemy armed with the secrets of Simon's past. Will Victoria's determination thaw a heart frozen by betrayal and bring them happiness and love, or will her attempt to rescue him from the sins of his youth bring them both to ruin?Miche le Ann Young lives and writes in Richmond Hill, Canada, where she resides with her husband and two beautiful daughters.
Author : John Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian
Author : Barbara Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918098
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentlemen's Blood written by Barbara Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674287002
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 Maupassant called dueling “the last of our unreasonable customs.” As a dramatic and forbidden ritual from another age, the duel retained a powerful hold on the public mind and, in particular, the literary imagination. Many of the greatest names in Western literature wrote about or even fought in duels, among them Corneille, Molière, Richardson, Rousseau, Pushkin, Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Twain, Conrad, Chekhov, and Mann. As John Leigh explains, the duel was a gift as a plot device. But writers also sought to discover in duels something more fundamental about human conflict and how we face our fears of humiliation, pain, and death. The duel was, for some, a social cause, a scourge to be mocked or lamented; yet even its critics could be seduced by its risk and glamour. Some conservatives defended dueling by arguing that the man of noble bearing who cared less about living than living with honor was everything that the contemporary bourgeois was not. The literary history of the duel, as Touché makes clear, illuminates the tensions that attended the birth of the modern world.
Author : Stephen Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747812616
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Duels and Duelling written by Stephen Banks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.
Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 162567189X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book There Was An Old Woman written by Ellery Queen and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 37th libel suit Thurlow Potts has brought to court to protect the family name, the family’s beleaguered lawyer Charlie Paxton loses the case. Thurlow seems driven beyond reason to protect the million dollar shoe business of his mother, Cornelia Potts, known to the press as the ‘Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.’ But some people in the courtroom think Thurlow should be taken seriously, including Ellery Queen, who is looking on while waiting with his father, Inspector Queen of the New York Police Department, for another case. Afraid Thurlow will make good on his threats, Paxton begs Queen for help. Paxton’s fiancee is Thurlow’s sister, and she secures Queen an invitation to dinner, where Queen meets the extended and unusual Potts family. But before the meal ends, Thurlow challenges his younger brother to a duel, and not one, but two murders ensue. For the twin victims, and for Queen who must now solve the crimes, the fairytale is over.
Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674504380
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Touché written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
