In 1837, two young African princes arrive in Holland. At the invitation of Dutch emissaries to West Africa, the king of the Ashanti has sent his son and nephew to receive the blessings of a European education. But unbeknownst to the king, the boys are to become pawns in the brutal game of the illici[...]
A servant girl in an Italian manor house in the eighteenth century, Lucia is engaged to a young man named Casanova but flees from her beloved when stricken with the pox, embarking on a wanderer's life for sixteen years until she is accidentally reunited with the now legendary lover Casanova. Reader'[...]