History of the Thirteen

✍ Honore Balzac 📂 Fiction 📅 2009;2006 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 251 KB

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background,

History of the Thirteen: Classics

✍ Balzac, Honoré de 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Penguin 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 255 KB

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background,

History of the Thirteen (Penguin ed)

✍ Honoré de Balzac 📂 Fiction 📅 2009;2006 🏛 Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 255 KB

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background,

Thirteen Uncanny Stories

✍ Hans Henny Jahnn 📂 Fiction 📅 1984 🏛 Peter Lang 🌐 English ⚖ 146 KB 👁 1 views

Jahnn selected the stories, originally appearing as exempla in his novels, for separate publication (13 nicht geheure Ge- schichten. Suhrkamp, 1967). They reflect his Weltanschauung of the harmonious universe in which man is part of an endless chain, connected on the one hand to his ancestors who pa

The Quest of the Thirteen

✍ John DeFilippis 📂 Fiction 🏛 Crossroad Press 🌐 English ⚖ 175 KB

Life in the Kingdom of Mavinor was always lived according to "The Scrolls," a set of holy documents written by men but believed to be inspired by a deity known as "The Author." When the people of Mavinor were attacked by the army of a neighboring kingdom (Xamnon), every copy of The Scrolls was destr

Field of Thirteen

✍ Dick Francis 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Penguin Group US;Berkley Books 🌐 English ⚖ 167 KB 👁 1 views

A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.