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Cruise Ship Reviews

Chess Story

Product DescriptionChess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in his Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on [...]

The Slim Princess

Product DescriptionMorovenia is a state in which both the mosque and the motor-car now occur in the same landscape. It started out to be Turkish and later decided to be European. The Slim Princess

The Ocean Cat’s Paw

Product DescriptionHere we have a full-length book by an excellent author at the very top of his powers. The time is set at the end of the Napoleonic War, and continues into the ensuing peace. The Ocean Cat’s Paw

In the King’s Name

Product DescriptionMorning on board the _Kestrel_, his Britannic majesty’s cutter, lying on and off the south coast on the lookout for larks, or what were to her the dainty little birds that the little falcon, her namesake, would pick up. For the _Kestrel’s_ wings were widespread to the soft south-easterly breeze that barely rippled the [...]

The Ocean Cat’s Paw, the Story of a Strange Cruise

Product DescriptionHere we have a full-length book by an excellent author at the very top of his powers. The time is set at the end of the Napoleonic War, and continues into the ensuing peace. The Ocean Cat’s Paw, the Story of a Strange Cruise

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