Allison Pataki
Finding Margaret Fuller
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Margaret Fuller, friend and muse to Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and a host of other Victorian literary luminaries, is an ideal subject for ...Read Review
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
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This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more about the 20th century, it’s all here, from the founding ...Read Review
The Queen’s Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire
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The world-shaking romance of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais is well known to readers of historical fiction, but Pataki takes a fresh ...Read Review
Where the Light Falls
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Two idealistic young men’s fates entwine during the trial of General Christophe de Kellermann, a hero of the French Revolution. Jean-Luc St. ...Read Review
Sisi: Empress on Her Own
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The Accidental Empress, Allison Pataki’s introductory novel on Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, is continued in this portrayal of her later years as ...Read Review
The Accidental Empress
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Empress Elisabeth, wife to Franz Joseph and empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was beloved in the 19th century, but her story is little-known ...Read Review
The Traitor’s Wife
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Beautiful. Tempestuous. Cunning. Peggy Shippen is all these things. As the reigning belle of Philadelphia society during the British occupation of 1778, she is ...Read Review