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Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
The author weaves a love story based on the events of the fight for the right to vote in 1867, in which only part of the male population of Britain received the right to vote.
Bulat Okudžava often called his historical novel Meeting with Bonaparte his best work.
Rome worshiped him, the gods protected him, but love betrayed him. "A fascinating, engaging and suspenseful story about one of Rome's most notorious emperors."
Translated, praised and read all over the world as the only true heir to the writing erudition of Umberto Eco, Iain Pears will keep you awake long after bedtime with his novel The Case of Smerkoaz.
The novel tells the lavish story of the last Egyptian queen, a woman of exceptional intelligence and beauty, whose life, love affairs with Caesar and Antony, and tragic death symbolize the collision of power, passion, and fate.