Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Исторические романы

Tells of the bizarre adventures of an 18th-century watchmaker and mechanical wizard - Claude Page. Maimed by surgery at the age of 12, his manual dexterity destines him to become one of Europe's most ...

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphem...

1172, Britain - king's lover is dead, and the bishop of St Albans summons an Italian female physician-cum-detective to find out the truth...

Adelia Aguilar is a unique person - she is Doctor to the Dead, in XI century. She has to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. But when member...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than...

When her husband, Otto II, is killed in battle, Byzantine princess Theophano becomes Regent over the tenth-century Holy Roman Empire, while her aunt and advisor, Aspasia, pursues a dangerous love affa...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daught...

"Autobiography" of a notorious Australian gang leader, written as a letter to his daughter. Late XIX century. Impressive.

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next ...

В трилогию "Клокочущая пустота" вошли три ранее изданных романа: "Острее шпаги", "Колокол солнца", "Иножитель", где дается широкая панорама событий во Франции X...

Китайская императрица Цыси, став до совершеннолетия сына соправительницей императрицы Нюгуру, еще не знала, что ее ждет долгое, насыщенное событиями правление, которое затянется вплоть до следующего с...

Никогда еще Артуро Перес-Реверте не замахивался на произведение столь эпического масштаба; искушенный читатель уловит в этом романе мастерски обыгранные отзвуки едва ли не всей современной классики, о...

Пустить красного петуха и поймать золотую рыбку — лишь малая толика того, что должен совершить за день опричник, надежда и опора государства российского. Слово и дело — его девиз, верность начальству ...