Novedades

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.

This story is the prequel to the best-selling Regency series on Amazon Italy: Benson Love. A way to introduce you to the protagonist's past in the first novel of the series. Plot: England, first half of the 19th century. George Ashton Herbert, the heir to the title of Earl of Pembroke, is a taciturn young man who prefers solitude to conventional company, silence to empty conversations, and truth to lies. What could the life of this boy be like, He describes himself as saying: "I am impassive to every stimulus, both physical and mental."?

In the 1880s, control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield into which Prime Minister Gladstone did not want to step—until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum, and the city became the focal point for war. It was the height of European colonialism. Injustices were administered, bloody battles fought, and civilians caught in the crossfire. Among the British officers were figures who would later adopt starring roles in the First World War, such as Egyptian Army sapper Captain Herbert Kitchener.