1876


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Daniel Deronda
The Meek One
L'Assommoir
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (Les Rougon-Macquart, #6)
Miguel Strogoff
The Hand of Ethelberta
Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins, #2)
The Prime Minister (Palliser #5)
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
The Automaton Ear, and Other Sketches
The Manchester Man
Le petit vieux des Batignolles
Contes du lundi
Marthe: The Story of a Whore
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBlack Beauty by Anna SewellAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
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While the estate team's defence may have been relevant to some of the Belleville properties, when applied specifically the the farms of Easterton and Westerton of Glenbanchor it was at best a gross distortion of reality, at worst duplicitous and even dishonest. Their houses were not unsafe; their farms were not too small; their land was not unsuitable for cultivation; the people did not leave of their own volition. The laird was not acting in their best interest but in the estate's, while the cl ...more
Mary Mackenzie, Glen Banchor: A Highland Glen and its People

Петър Константинов
Русия е била строго против Априлското въстание. "Въстание ще има" - твърдели емисарите на руския царизъм - „но само когато това реши Русия." Сигналите за подготовката на въстанието в България в началото на 1876 г. предизвикали истинска тревога всред официалните среди в Петербург и Москва. Взети били мерки да се парират всички действия на организацията. С помощта на руските емисари в Букурещ и на руските служители в посолството в Цариград били заловени и екстрадирани в Русия закупчиците на оръжие ...more
Петър Константинов, История на България с някои премълчавани досега исторически факти 681–2001

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