Gardens of the Tsars: A Study of the Aesthetics, Semantics and Uses of Late 18th Century Russian Gardens
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The reign of Catherine the Great (1762-1796) marks a high point in the history of Imperial Russia....
The Importance of Manners
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Burt Darwin is a writer and world religions specialist. Lady Chanel Mallory, a former hand model,...
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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'I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he...
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
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The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old...
Once Upon a Time
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From the end of World War II through the 1980s, Aarons photographed the rich and famous, the...
An Introduction to Medieval English Literature: 1300-1485
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This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination,...
Chartist Fiction: Volume 2: Ernest Jones, Woman's Wrongs
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This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in...
ClareR (6037 KP) rated The Woman in the Wallpaper in Books
Oct 14, 2025
Sofie and Lara Thibault, along with their mother, move from Marseille to work in a wallpaper factory near Paris after he violent death of their father. The Oberst factory provides them all with a job and Josef Oberst becomes friends with the sisters.
A marriage and the Revolution see an end to the friendship.
I loved all the historical details around the Revolution, what it was like to work in a wallpaper factory, and the differences between the workers and the aristocracy. I could feel the tension radiating off the page, building to its incendiary, and very sad conclusion. I thought the character- and world-building were excellent, and I even felt some sympathy for the awful, aristo wife of Josef.
It’s a fabulous addition to stories set during the French Revolution.
17 Carnations: The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up
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The true story of Edward Windsor and Wallis Simpson's involvement with the Nazi regime, and the...
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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In The Divide, Matt Taibbi - the scourge of America's financial plutocrats - takes on his most...