George Payne Rainsford James (1799 – 1860) war zu seiner Zeit bekannt für seine historischen Romane in der Nachfolge Walter Scotts. Er reiste viel und nahm an den Kriegen gegen Napoleon teil. König William IV. ernannte ihn zu seinem Geschichtsschreiber.
8 Ebooks by George Payne Rainsford James
George Payne Rainsford James: Robin Hood
Immer für Recht und Gerechtigkeit. England 1265: Das Land ist gespalten zwischen den normannischen Anhängern des schwachen und tyrannischen Königs Heinrich III. und den angelsächsischen Baronen, die …
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George Payne Rainsford James: Philip Augustus
Although there is something chilling in that sad, inevitable word, the past—although in looking through the thronged rolls of history, and reading of all the dead passions, the fruitless anxieties, …
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George Payne Rainsford James: One in a Thousand or, The Days of Henri Quatre
George Payne Rainsford James, Historiographer Royal to King William IV., was born in London in the first year of the nineteenth century, and died at Venice in 1860. His comparatively short life was …
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George Payne Rainsford James: Mary of Burgundy Or The Revolt of Ghent
George Payne Rainsford James, Historiographer Royal to King William IV., was born in London in the first year of the nineteenth century, and died at Venice in 1860. His comparatively short life was …
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George Payne Rainsford James: Ticonderoga
The house was a neat, though a lowly one. It bore traces of newness, for the bark on the trunks which supported the little veranda had not yet mouldered away. Nevertheless, it was not built by the …
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George Payne Rainsford James: The Convict
It may be very well in most cases to plunge, according to the rule of the Latin poet, into the middle of things. It may be very well even, according to the recommendation of Count Antoine Hamilton, …
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George Payne Rainsford James: The Man in Black
Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities—I might almost say the oddities—of that particular epoch …
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George Payne Rainsford James: The Forgery
One of the finest characters in the world was the old English merchant. We may and have improved upon many things, but not upon that. A different spirit reigns in commerce from that which ruled it …
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