The King And The Vice Queen

Although George IV's affair with Catholic widow Maria Fitzherbert is well known, few have heard of his last great love, Elizabeth Conyngham - his Vice Queen. Ambrose sets out to chart the course of this affair from its early beginnings in the overheated salons of the Brighton Pavilion to the King's declining years at Windsor.

Here is presented for the first time an extraordinary medieval text, the first Old French Vie des Pères. The Vie des Pères is in fact a collective text comprising three branches and, at its fullest, over seventy individually enclosed pious tales / miracles. The first Vie – the first forty-one or -two tales – dates from the first third of the thirteenth century. It is a vitally significant but hitherto neglected part of the Old French canon. Indeed, in his preface to this volume Michel Zink, one of the most respected medievalists of his generation, notes that the qualities of the Vie des Pèrs ‘devraient valoir à son auteur une place au voisinage de celle qu’occupent pour nous celui de la Chanson de Roland ou Chrétien de Troyes.’ The tales are remarkably well written and offer fascinating glimpses of thirteenth-century life and spirituality. They were also extremely popular in Medieval France. Sharing close links with a number of traditions – fabliaux, Saints’ Lives, Miracles of the Virgin, Romance, Sermons – the Vie des Pères has value for those interested in many branches of vernacular literature, codicology, lexicography, art history, theology and philology. Tales of Vice and Virtue – the first sustained analysis of the entire first Vie des Pères to be published – is a groundbreaking book providing readers new to the text with detailed commentaries, offering abundant intertextual information for romance philologists, and suggesting many new areas for further research.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir" by Elizabeth Philippa Baroness Biddulph. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

From the courtesans of Versailles to the back halls of the Chirac government, from Danton to the shady bankers of Mitterand's era, Lombard unearths the secrets of the corridors of power. He reveals the corruption, grandeur, and panache that characterize the great. This cavalcade over many centuries can be read as a subversive tract on how to lead.

Continue the adventure with this steamy fae fantasy series by dark romance author Jill Ramsower... Ashley I’ve been gifted with a second chance at life, along with magical powers. The catch? I need sex to fuel my powers and a teacher to help me wield them. A wild chemistry sparks between Casek and me. He’d be the perfect teacher if he wasn’t the most brutish, stubborn man I’ve ever met. He makes it impossible to learn. But when I mention learning from anyone else, his Fae eyes blaze with fury. Casek Ashley has no idea of the danger she’s in. She thinks having powers is all fun and games, but she’s not any ordinary Fae. The unique origin of her magic has painted a target on her back. I’ve been ordered to protect her, and I’ll do whatever it takes because Ashley is mine. Whether she knows it or not. Venom & Vice is the SECOND novel in the Of Myth & Man series, and it is highly recommended that you read the books in order. It is a dark fantasy romance with adult themes which may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. If you love a HOT romantic story set in a fantasy world with a guaranteed happily ever after, this enemies to lovers romance will have you begging for more! (Originally published as part of The Fae Games series.)

Published between 1844 and 1846, this collection of Nelson's letters documents his career from 1777 to his death in 1805.