18th century

A 150th anniversary edition of Charles Dickens' classic novel in which a young Englishman gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves. Includes an introduction and afterword.

Lives of the protagonists, many of whom come from Jane Austin's six novels, interact with other characters newly created by the author, in matters of love and general eighteenth century life.

After the wedding Elizabeth is happy living in relative seclusion with Mr. Darcy and his sister, and as Christmas approaches she decides to invite her mother and sister for a visit, but what begins as a small family party soon grows out of proportion.

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles that provide basic information on over four hundred major European figures from 1600 to 1720, including those who had significant impact on intellectual and cultural activity of the era.

Examines historical oddities and trends of the eighteenth century in an attempt to understand the origins of the Enlightenment.

Two centuries ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared traverse the Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of myth and speculation--and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, a small corps of Paris's brightest left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark into the unknown--some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists--even a poet and a musicologist--accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their finds, and secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists.--From publisher description.

The story of the seventy-four gun warship "Bellerophon" and the role it played in three significant sea battles of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which establish British Naval supremacy for 100 years.

Examines the politics, society, and culture of France in the years between the death of Louis XIV in 1715 to the advent of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799, focusing on the powerful Bourbon monarchy.

A young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the paper.

After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders under English rule.