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Robert Louis Stevenson St. Ives

Adventure
English
103088 Words
Ages 8 and up
244
2

St. Ives is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. St. Ives tells the story of a French hussar officer Jacques St. Ives imprisoned by the British in Scotland. The story is an exploration of the recurring theme of the polarity of human nature. St. Ives (whose family motto is "Audentes Fortuna Juvat"--“Fortune favors the daring"), a witty, womanizing veteran of Napoleon's wars, kills a brother officer in a duel. In order to avoid having to fight all the officers of the dead man's regiment, as well as to have time to bed his latest flame, St. Ives insults his commandant to be given a demotion. Instead, St. Ives is broken to the ranks and, now a private in an infantry regiment, he proceeds to get himself captured by the British. Sent to a prison camp in Scotland, St. Ives soon becomes involved in the love life of the prison's commander, Major Farquar Chevening and with Flora Gilchrist and her unmarried aunt. He is also reunited with his émigré grandfather, a ci-devant count, and his wastrel brother, who have been living in Scotland since the deaths of St. Ives's father and mother during the Revolution. Intrigue, masked balls, disguises, duels, and hair's-breath escapes ensue. [more]

Keywords: st ives, robert louis stevenson, action and adventure, war novel, romance, historical fiction, dark comedy

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Sophie J. Mein neues Leben in St. Ives

Romance
German
19914 Words
No Age Recommendation
494
27

Als sich die Eltern der 16-jährigen Claire Turner sich zu einer Trennung entschließen, muss sie sich entscheiden: Entweder sie gibt ihre heißgeliebte Araberstute Suleika her oder sie zieht mit ihrem Vater an die Küste Cornwalls. Da Claire Suleika auf keinen Fall aufgeben möchte, geht sie mit ihrem Vater nach St. Ives. Auf der neuen Schule findet sie schon bald neue Freunde, aber auch einige Feinde. Außerdem gibt es da ja noch Chris, den gutaussehenden Typ aus der Jungsclique... [more]

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Robert Louis Stevenson St Ives (Fiscle Part 3)

Biography & Autobiography
English
58820 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

It Was In The Month Of May 1813 That I Was So Unlucky As To Fall At Last Into The Hands Of The Enemy. My Knowledge Of The English Language Had Marked Me Out For A Certain Employment. Though I Cannot Conceive A Soldier Refusing To Incur The Risk, Yet To Be Hanged For A Spy Is A Disgusting Business; And I Was Relieved To Be Held A Prisoner Of War. Into The Castle Of Edinburgh, Standing In The Midst Of That City On The Summit Of An Extraordinary Rock, I Was Cast With Several Hundred Fellow-Sufferers, All Privates Like Myself, And The More Part Of Them, By An Accident, Very Ignorant, Plain Fellows. My English, Which Had Brought Me Into That Scrape, Now Helped Me Very Materially To Bear It. [more]

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Thomas Holcroft Anna St. Ives (fiscle part-III)

Fiction
English
70254 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.He was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London. His father had a shoemaker's shop, and kept riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced to the status of hawking peddler. The son accompanied his parents in their travels, and obtained work as a stable boy at Newmarket, where he spent his evenings chiefly in miscellaneous reading and the study of music. Gradually he obtained a knowledge of French, German and Italian. [more]

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Thomas Holcroft Anna St. Ives (fiscle part-III)

Fiction
English
122733 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.He was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London. His father had a shoemaker's shop, and kept riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced to the status of hawking peddler. The son accompanied his parents in their travels, and obtained work as a stable boy at Newmarket, where he spent his evenings chiefly in miscellaneous reading and the study of music. Gradually he obtained a knowledge of French, German and Italian. [more]

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Thomas Holcroft Anna St. Ives (Fiscle Part 3) Of 1

Religion
English
60178 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Here Are We, My Dear Girl, In the Very Height Of Preparation. We Begin Our Journey Southward At Five Tomorrow Morning. We Shall Make A Short Stay In london, And Then Proceed to Paris. Expectation Is On Tiptoe: My Busy Fancy Has Pictured to Itself Calais, Montreuil, Abbeville, In Short Every Place Which The Book Of Post Roads Enumerates, And Some Of Which The Divine Sterne Has Rendered so Famous. I Expect To Find Nothing but Mirth, Vivacity, Fancy, And Multitudes Of People. I Have Read So Much Of The Populousness Of France, The Gaiety Of Its Inhabitants, The Magnificence Of Its Buildings, Its Fine Climate, Fertility, Numerous Cities, Superb Roads, Rich Plains, And Teeming Vineyards, That I Already Imagine Myself Journeying through An Enchanted land. [more]

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Thomas Holcroft Anna St. Ives (Fiscle Part 3) Of 3

Religion
English
70708 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Alas! Louisa, What Are We?--What Are Our Affections, What Our Resolves? Taken At Unguarded moments, Agitated, Hurried away By [more]

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Thomas Holcroft Anna St. Ives (Fiscle Part 3) Of 2

Religion
English
64295 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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I Know Not, Louisa, How To Begin! I Have An Accident To Relate Which Has Alarmed me So Much [more]

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Geoffrey Peyton Cabin in the woods

St Ives and its environs.

Travel
English
7848 Words
Ages 16 and up
140
1

A travel guide on where to go and what to do if you are on a vacation on the North West Coast of the English Riviera. Like most of rural Britain, Cornwall is a ramblers paradise, and the coastal views are a tremendous and welcomed break from the dilapidation of the concrete jungles of a metropolitan world. So join me on a journey of comical mishaps and great scenic adventures in and around the environs of St. Ives. [more]

Keywords: Travel, Humour, History

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Theodore Watts Dunton Aylwin

Fiction
English
172517 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Theodore Watts-Dunton (12 October 1832 – 6 June 1914) was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism.alter Theodore Watts was born at St. Ives in what was then Huntingdonshire. He added his mother's name of Dunton to his surname in 1897. He was originally educated as a naturalist, and saw much of the East Anglian Gypsies, of whose superstitions and folk-lore he made careful study. Abandoning natural history for the law, he qualified as a solicitor and went to London, where he practised for some years, giving his spare time to his chosen pursuit of literature. One of his clients was Swinburne, whom he befriended in 1872.[citation needed] [more]

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