[PDF] The Man In The Yellow Doublet eBook

Author : Arturo P'Rez-Reverte
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780753826935

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Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide. Captain Alatriste's affair with the beautiful actress Maria de Castro is rankling not only his long-term mistress but also the King of Spain. With loyal companion Inigo distracted by the affections of Angelica, Alatriste becomes embroiled in a series of tussles outside his lover's house. Ambushed by arch-nemesis Malatesta, a skirmish ensues that leads to the death of Maria's other lover - the monarch himself. But behind this tale of sexual jealousy lurks a darker truth. As it becomes clear that both Alatriste and Inigo have been cunningly honey trapped - and that the dead man was an impostor. With a puppet king waiting dutifully in the wings, Alatriste must use all his cunning and swordsmanly guile to prevent the murder of the real king - and his implication in a crime for which he has been perfectly framed.

Author : Arturo P'Rez-Reverte
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Actresses
ISBN :

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Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN :

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On a dark night in Madrid, Captain Alatriste is ambushed by his nemesis, Malatesta, and his crew. As steel meets steel in the dim street light, the skirmish leads to tragedy: the murder of the King. Vulnerable and wounded, the Captain has nowhere to run. But it soon transpires that all is not as it seems.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101140208

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The fifth novel in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, a seventeenth-century swashbuckler and “a twenty-first-century literary phenomenon”(Entertainment Weekly). In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé Íñigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep Alatriste on retainer—regardless of whether his "employment" brings the captain uncomfortably close to old enemies. Alatriste begins an affair with the famous and beautiful actress, María Castro, but soon discovers that the cost of her favors may be more than he bargained for—especially when he and Íñigo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0452287111

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The first action-packed historical adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series, featuring a Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in 17th century Madrid. Needing gold to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the travelers a fright. “No blood,” they are told. Then a mysterious stranger enters to clarify the job: he increases the pay, and tells Alatriste that, instead, he must murder the two travelers. When the attack unfolds, Alatriste realizes that these aren’t ordinary travelers, and what happens next is only the first in a riveting series of twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe...

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8466329188

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En esta quinta entrega de «Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste» Diego Alatriste e Íñigo Balboa se enfrentarán entre estocadas e intrigas palaciegas a una conspiración en la corte de Felipe IV. El caballero del Jubón amarillo se desarrolla en el mundo de los corrales de comedias del Madrid del siglo XVII. En esta ocasión Diego Alatriste volverá a cruzarse con viejos amigos y viejos enemigos, y con los personajes famosos de la época como Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca y el capitán Alonso Contreras. Lances, estocadas, intrigas palaciegas y aventuras amorosas salpican un relato de acción trepidante. «Don Francisco de Quevedo me dirigió una mirada que interpreté como era debido, pues fui detrás del capitán Alatriste. Avísame si hay problemas, habían dicho sus ojos tras los lentes quevedescos. Dos aceros hacen más papel que uno. Y así, consciente de mi responsabilidad, acomodé la daga de misericordia que llevaba atravesada al cinto y fui en pos de mi amo, discreto como un ratón, confiando en que esta vez pudiéramos terminar la comedia sin estocadas y en paz, pues habría sido bellaca afrenta estropearle el estreno a Tirso de Molina. Yo estaba lejos de imaginar hasta qué punto la bellísima actriz María de Castro iba a complicar mi vida y la del capitán, poniéndonos a ambos en gravísimo peligro; por no hablar de la corona del rey Felipe IV, que esos días anduvo literalmente al filo de una espada. Todo lo cual me propongo contar en esta nueva aventura, probando así que no hay locura a la que el hombre no llegue, abismo al que no se asome, y lance que el diablo no aproveche cuando hay mujer hermosa de por medio.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This long awaited fifth installment of the famous adventures of Capitan Alatriste is set in an aristocratic love affair between Alatriste and María de Castro, the most beautiful and famous actress of the Golden Era who is also being courted by Felipe IV. Action, history and adventure come together in these unforgettable pages of danger and excitement.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780452287983

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Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood” and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition.

Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1474249906

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This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719015588

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Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.

Author : Charles Ryan
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786015641

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In the bestselling tradition of W.E.B. Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" comes the first action-packed book in an exciting World War II adventure series about a special Army unit comprised of elite warriors. Original.