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Along the
Bosphorus by Susan E. Wallace |
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The City of the King by Susan E.
Wallace |
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Along the
Bosphorus
describes the
conflicts between ancient Greece and the many Middle Eastern empires
from pre-history to Saladin, the Crusades and the Ottoman Empire. She
moves from myth to history, from the gods of Olympian to the heroes of
Homer's
Odyssey. |
ILLUSTRATED In The
City of the King, Susan Wallace’s richly describes Jerusalem and
Bethlehem in biblical times, most particularly during Christ’s lifetime.
She then contrasts these times with the Jerusalem and Bethlehem
experienced during her visits there in the 1880s. |
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The Fair God by Lew Wallace |
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The Land of the
Pueblos by Susan E. Wallace |
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Wallace began writing The Fair God in 1847 while
serving as a Lt. in the First Indiana Infantry during the Mexican War,
forces commanded by Gen. Zachary Taylor against the Mexican President,
Santa Anna. Wallace spent many evenings studying and writing. |
ILLUSTRATED
Land of the
Pueblos
offers a richly
detailed history and first-person narrative of the New Mexico Territory
and the American Southwest from the arrival of the earliest Spanish
Conquistadores; the systematic genocide of native American peoples;
claims, claim jumpers and lost mines; the Mexican American War; and the
then turbulent, violent, lawless period from1878-1881 |
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The Prince of India, Volume I by Lew Wallace |
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The Prince of India, Volume II by Lew
Wallace |
| In 1881, Ben-Hur
admirer, Pres. James Garfield appointed Lew Wallace U.S. Minister to
Turkey, in part, to aid Wallace research and write a massive novel about
Constantinople reworking the legend of the Wandering Jew. Harper & Bros
advanced Wallace an unprecedented $500,000 based on Ben-Hur’s
success. Wallace labored for twelve years to complete the resulting
novel. |
In 1881, Ben-Hur
admirer, Pres. James Garfield appointed Lew Wallace U.S. Minister to
Turkey, in part, to aid Wallace research and write a massive novel about
Constantinople reworking the legend of the Wandering Jew. Harper & Bros
advanced Wallace an unprecedented $500,000 based on Ben-Hur’s
success. Wallace labored for twelve years to complete the resulting
novel. |
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The Storied Sea by Susan E. Wallace |
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Smoke, Sound & Fury by Lew Wallace
Edited and with an Introduction by
Jim Leeke |
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The Storied Sea contains early letters from the
Mediterranean written by Susan Wallace, to readers of the “New York
Independent”, describing her travels from 1881 to 1885 through Spain,
France, Italy, Greece, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine and Turkey;
the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, Malta and
Rhodes; and through the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean seas.
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ILLUSTRATED
Land of the
Pueblos
offers a richly
detailed history and first-person narrative of the New Mexico Territory
and the American Southwest from the arrival of the earliest Spanish
Conquistadores; the systematic genocide of native American peoples;
claims, claim jumpers and lost mines; the Mexican American War; and the
then turbulent, violent, lawless period from1878-1881 |
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