George Payne Rainsford James (9 August 1799 – 9 June 1860), was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent. He held the honorary office of British Historiographer Royal during the last years of William IV“s reign. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
21 Ebooks von G.P.R. James
G.P.R. James: The Old Dominion
This is a romantic fiction written by 19th century writer G.P.R. James, a well-known British writer during the Victorian Era. This is one of his most famous works, and here is an excerpt from the i …
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G.P.R. James: The Little Ball O‘ Fire or the Life and Adventures of John Marston Hall
This is a romantic fiction written by 19th century writer G.P.R. James, a well-known British writer during the Victorian Era. This is one of his most famous works, and a table of contents is includ …
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G.P.R. James: Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History
This is a romantic fiction that purports to be a biography of Arabella Stuart of the Stuart royal line that ruled Great Britain. From the foreword:
“In depicting the characters of the vario …
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G.P.R. James: Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III
This book was written over a century ago. The descriptions of the shoreline of Kent all in non-sophisticated but very distinctive English are music to ears and imagination. To this add a great …
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G.P.R. James: Ticonderoga: A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley
Excerpt: "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 …
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G.P.R. James: Darnley
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their …
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G.P.R. James: Castle of Ehrenstein
Excerpt: "It was an awfully dark and tempestuous night; the wind howled in fury through the trees, and round the towers; the large drops of rain dashed against the casements, the small lozenges …
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G.P.R. James: Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times
Excerpt: "It was an hour past midnight – the sentries had just been relieved upon the castle wall – and Hugh de Monthermer sat by the window, looking out into the depth of night, and gazing at …
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G.P.R. James: Agnes Sorel: A Novel
The story is really about one Jean Charost, who enters into the service of the Duke of Orleans in the early 1400’s, and proves himself worthy. It has lots of sword fights and sieges and dungeons and …
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G.P.R. James: Agincourt: A Romance
Excerpt: "The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of shadow, which our great Poet has called the "blanket of the dark;" clouds …
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G.P.R. James: Lord Montagu’s Page: An Historical Romance
Excerpt: "It was a dark and stormy night, -a very dark night indeed. No dog’s mouth, whether terrier, mastiff, or Newfoundland, was ever so dark as that night. The hatches had been battened …
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G.P.R. James: Black Eagle; Ticonderoga
Excerpt: "Among the minor trials of faith, few, perhaps, are more difficult to contend against than that growing conviction, which, commencing very soon after the holiday happiness of youth has …
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G.P.R. James: Attila: A Romance. Vol.1-2
Excerpt: "In giving this book to the public I have but little to explain. The reader who takes it up may expect to find something respecting the Princess Honoria. He will, however, find nothing. …
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G.P.R. James: Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne
Excerpt: "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 …
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G.P.R. James: Convict: A Tale
Excerpt: "In a small high room of the oldest part of St. John’s College, Cambridge, in a warm and glowing day of the early spring, and at about seven o’clock in the morning, there sat a young …
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G.P.R. James: Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol.1, 2 And 3
Excerpt: "Not many years ago, as the writer of this work was returning on horseback to Castellamare, from a visit to the Lactarian Hills, he overtook, just under the chestnut trees on the slope, …
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G.P.R. James: Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III
Excerpt: "Of all the hard-working people on the earth, there are none so serviceable to her neighbours as the moon. She lights lovers and thieves. She keeps watch-dogs waking. She is a constant …
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G.P.R. James: Gipsy: A Tale (Vol. I – II)
Excerpt: "At that time in the world’s history when watches, in their decline from the fat comeliness of the turnip to the scanty meagreness of the half-crown, had arrived at the intermediate …
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G.P.R. James: King’s Highway
Excerpt: ""Names, indeed, are nothing, " said the other with a smile. "What I have got to say, sir, is this, that I have undoubted reason to know that the life of the High …
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G.P.R. James: Old Dominion
Excerpt: "I wrote to you, my dear sister, from the pretty little town of Baltimore; and I hope you have received my letter. Although this so speedily follows it, my only motives for writing are, …
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G.P.R. James: Whim, and Its Consequences
Excerpt: "A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses. Is …
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