Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific English novelist and historian. With author James Rice, he wrote a number of successful novels, of which Golden Butterfly (1876) is the best known. Of his solo works, the best remembered are Dorothy Forster (1884) and All in a Garden Fair (1886), a novel which Kipling claimed inspired him to become a writer.
5 Ebooks von Sir Walter Besant
Grant Allen & Sir Walter Besant: Sea
The sea has always intrigued mankind.Becalmed or angry, it is always majestic and speaks of nature’s power, her ability to conjure our imaginations to action and to weave stories, myths and …
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€1.56
Sir Sir: The Revolt of Man
The Revolt of Man was written during a certain summer holiday; day by day chapter by chapter, was read out, as it was finished, to two ladies. It is needless to say that their comments on the progres …
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€0.88
Sir Walter Besant & E.H. Palmer: History of Jerusalem (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This history of Jerusalem from about the time of Jesus’ death through the mid-nineteenth century covers the Jewish Revolt and the ensuing Roman siege of the city, the Muslim conquest, the Crusader …
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€1.99
Sir Walter Besant: The Story of King Alfred (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Besant set out in this 1901 novel to bring the life of the great King Alfred not just to the well-educated, but also to the masses. The
New York Times said the work ‚presents a clear picture of …
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€1.99
William Clark Russell: Stories by English Authors, The Sea
Excerpt from THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE BY W. CLARK RUSSELL: "In the newspapers of 1876 appeared the following extracts from the log of a merchantman: "VOLCANIC ISLAND IN …
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€1.84
