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Akbar at the height of his power, seen from inside the harem and the council chamber alike: the emperor who could not read building a capital, a religion and an empire, and the women whose lives are decided by his moods. Steel spent twenty-two years in India as an official's wife, learned Punjabi, inspected girls' schools and collected the folk tales; she wrote the Mughal court from the sources and from a knowledge of the country that almost no English novelist had.

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  1. On the Face of the Waters : Enriched Edition. A Victorian Historical Novel of the 1857 Indian Rebellion, Delhi Siege, and Colonial Conflict

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  2. On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny

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  3. English Fairy Tales : Captivating English folklore filled with magical elements and moral lessons

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  4. The Potter's Thumb

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  5. King-Errant

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  6. The Hosts of the Lord

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  7. The Mercy of the Lord

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  9. #94

    Essential Novelists - Flora Annie Steel : Anglo-Indian culture

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  10. #3

    Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

    H. and E. Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E F Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A.E.W. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz-James O’Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B.M. Bower, August Nemo

  11. #10

    Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 10

    Sheridan Le Fanu, H. and E. Heron, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Maria Edgeworth, Edward Bellamy, S. Baring-Gould, Arnold Bennett, August Nemo