Barlasch of the Guard
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-09-28Язык книги:
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74
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One of Henry Seton Merriman’s most popular and acclaimed novels, Barlasch of the Guard explores the ideals and imperfections of people, great and small alike, under the incomprehensible strains of life under siege, beset by the destructive forces of both man and nature.
The events are those of the months before, during, and after the Grande Armée’s 1812 invasion of and catastrophic retreat from Russia, during which approximately one million soldiers and civilians died, and which marked the end of Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Europe and the...
Suspense
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-10-20Язык книги:
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110
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Theo Trist and Brenda Gilholme have known one another since childhood. Trist has become a renowned war correspondent for influential newspapers in London and Paris, dispatched to dangerous areas of the globe to report on the most terrible events imaginable. Brenda, until now in the shadow of her sister, a celebrated society beauty, has lived the life of the mind, immersing herself in studies of languages, mathematics, theology, and political economy—a life which Victorian society doesn’t value for its daughters, but which Trist admires in the observant and analytical Brenda. Mrs. Wylie, a mutual friend who has supported each of them...
The Sowers
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-10-13Язык книги:
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104
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With The Sowers, a story ranging from the upper class drawing-rooms of London, Paris, and St. Petersburg to the vast estates and peasant villages of the Russian steppe, Henry Seton Merriman enjoyed his greatest popular success. Its protagonist is a young man of strong ideals and character who is known to his friends and London society as Paul Howard Alexis, to the vicious Russian aristocracy and the thousands of resentful peasants on his estate as Prince Pavlo Alexis, and to those same impoverished thousands as the “Moscow Doctor” sent by God, whose tireless,...
The Vultures
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-10-26Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
91
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In The Vultures, Henry Seton Merriman plots a taut, fast-moving story of international intrigue which seems as though it could’ve been written in the modern era rather than in the Victorian.
Reginald Cartoner, a British agent, and his counterpart in the French service, Paul Deulin, have worked with and against one another for many years, building a mutual professional respect and a wary friendship. They and an American, Joseph Mangles, are known by political insiders as “vultures”—men whose sudden arrival in a seemingly peaceful place presages the...
With Edged Tools
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Henry Seton MerrimanЖанр:
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2026-11-10Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
103
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Jack Meredith is the scion of a respected family and the beau-ideal of London society; Guy Oscard has chosen to forsake that society for the lonely existence of a big game hunter. Each is now driven by love and pride to seek his fortune in West Africa, where they join a partnership to supply the world’s rarest medicine—a drug derived from the leaves of plant which grows only on a single plateau in the interior of one of the most inaccessible, dangerous places on Earth. These two resourceful men, different though they seem, are united by strength of character and a shared sense of honor. They soon form a friendship which can survive any...
