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The Duke's Prize by Maturin Murray, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure

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LOVE AND RIVALRY IN SUNNY ITALY Florinda is the Duke's Prize. The Grand Duke of Tuscany had taken the orphan under his wing, even though she had a ward, her uncle Signor Latrezzi. Carlton tells Florinda a tale of the Rhine, of the lovers Egbert and Bettina and how they thwarted opposition to their love. It is a prophetic tale. For Signor Latrezzi had always planned for Florinda to marry Petro Giampetti. And the jealous, violent Petro had grown up always believing that the Duke's Prize belonged to him. ENTER THIS RAVISHING ROMANCE OF A COLORFUL TIME

Author Biography

Maturin Murray Ballou (1820 - 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleason's Pictorial, was the first editor of the Boston Daily Globe and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction. Starting around 1838, Ballou wrote for the Olive Branch, a weekly paper published in Boston. In addition to writing, he worked various jobs for the Boston Post Office and the Boston Custom House. From 1842 through 1844, Ballou and Isaac H. Wright published the weekly newspaper Bay State Democrat. Writing under the pseudonym Lieutenant Murray, Ballou authored popular novels which were published by Frederick Gleason starting around 1845, such as The Gipsey and the Robbers of Naples: a Story of Love and Pride. He also wrote stories for The Flag of Our Union. In 1851, Ballou and Frederick Gleason established the weekly paper Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. It was inspired by The Illustrated London News. The first issue appeared on May 3, 1851 and declared: "The object of this paper is to present, in the most elegant and available form, a weekly literary melange of notable events of the day. Its columns are devoted to original tales, sketches and poems, by the best American authors and the cream of the domestic and foreign news; the whole well spiced with wit and humor." In November 1854, Ballou bought out Gleason and changed the paper's name to Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Release date NZ
February 20th, 2009
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Imprint
Aegypan
Pages
108
Publisher
Aegypan
Dimensions
152x229x7
ISBN-13
9781606643563
Product ID
27473945

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