William Story

A Journal Kept in France, During a Captivity Commencing April, 1805, and Ending May, 1814 William Story

Publisher Marketing: Title: A Journal kept in France, during a captivity ... commencing ... April, 1805, and ending ... May, 1814. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Story, William; 1815. iv, 116 p.; 8 . 1435.d.13. Contributor Bio:  Story, William William Story: The author of short stories and three previous novels, Domino Spill, Cemeteries Are for Dying, and Final Thesis. The New York Times said "Mr. Story writes well and has the ability to create menacing figures without making caricatures of them." Publishers Weekly said, "(His) underworld characters are well drawn." Robert B. Parker said Cemeteries Are for Dying, one of Story's novels is "A powerful story, beautifully told." William Story, who has taught composition and creative writing, currently lives in Peabody, Massachusetts with his wife Marie.