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Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths
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2012
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The Cavalier of the Apocalypse (Aristide Ravel, #1)
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Game of Patience (Aristide Ravel, #3)
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A Treasury of Regrets (Aristide Ravel, #4)
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Palace of Justice (Aristide Ravel, #2)
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A Far Better Rest
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The Executioner's Heir: A Novel of Eighteenth-Century France
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Masquerade
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The Annotated a Tale of Two Cities: Abridged-Text Edition
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The Weirder Side Of Paris: A Guide to 101 Bizarre, Bloodstained, or Macabre Sights, From the Merely Eccentric to the Downright Ghoulish
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“The English criminal code, later known as the "Bloody Code," was brutal in the late 18th century. By the time the first legal reforms were enacted in 1826, 220 crimes—many of them relatively petty crimes against property as Dickens describes in the rest of the paragraph—were punishable by death.”
― A Tale of Two Cities: A Reader's Companion
― A Tale of Two Cities: A Reader's Companion
“Everybody present, except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling, stared at him. All the human breath in the place, rolled at him, like a sea, or a wind, or a fire. Eager faces strained round pillars and corners, to get a sight of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands on the shoulders of the people before them, to help themselves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him—stood a-tiptoe, got upon ledges, stood upon next to nothing, to see every inch of him.”
― A Tale of Two Cities: A Reader's Companion
― A Tale of Two Cities: A Reader's Companion
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Thank you for your friendship. Your books look interesting. Have a happy Spring/Summer of reading/Writing.
Jeannie and Louis