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Battle, intrigue and Druidism followed to their brutal conclusions in the dark pre-Christian world of the Celts... Henry Treece explores a period in British history when magic and murder were matter-of-fact and the 'civilising' influence of Rome had yet to make headway...
As the author mentions in the Preface, the intent of the book is to explain in a non-technical manner the main outlines of parts of science specially related to the questions and problems of music, assuming no previous knowledge either of science or of mathematics on...
This is Henry Bellamann's wonderful novel that many call a lost American classic. Despite being a critical and commercial success on its release in 1940, leading to a film version with Ronald Reagan two years later, King's Row and the rest of Bellamann's works are...
In his new novel Henry Treece takes as his subject the insurrection of the British queen, Boudicca (Boadicea), in the year 61 A.D. This bloody upheaval, caused by the unjust demands of Nero, resulted in the deaths of some seventy-thousand Romans and their...
A thrilling, gripping tale of fear, menace, and mystery in which Miss Adams becomes enmeshed when she plays the double game of nurse and detective in a large, eerie house where doors are barred at night!
A marvelous collection of love, treachery, foolishness, tragedy and humor. All the famous great ancient Greek tales are here compellingly re-told, from the insolent exploits of Phaeton and Icarus, to the sorrow-filled fate of Orpheus and Eurydice, and many others.
Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of “that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation.” Originally published in the 1930s, The English...
This is Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays.This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay." Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing...
The Royal Road to Romance is the travel classic in which a happy, young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world. When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career,...
Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding...
Sir Marmaduke, a weary man of the world, goes forth to seek his vanished youth. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder is but one. The Quest of Youth is a story of Regency England romance and adventure which, because of its atmosphere, stirring...
In many ways this is the most authoritative work on the thousand year reign of Christ ever to appear in English.
Eddington was one of the most important British scientists of this times, and the first major expositor of Einstein's work to the English-speaking world, but also familiar with the major advances in quantum mechanics, then taking place. Basically an astrophysicist with...
Winds of Fortune is a novel brimming with romance and adventures... a pirate captain who turns out to be a real gentleman to the damsel in distress and a lost Incan treasure make for a first-rate Regency swashbuckling pirate romance!
John Penhale has been served an ultimatum in the will of his Aunt Selina: “Marry within the year or lose your inheritance.” Fighting off an attack by a highwayman as he returns to his farm near Lamorna, he is followed home by Teresa - a gypsy girl who changes his life...
Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy...
Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers. But when they both fall in love with the same fickle woman, their friendship turns to raging hate. But with this woman frolicking with the hearts of two jealous...
The Setons depicts Scottish country life in the early 20th century, as young Elizabeth Seton uses her strength of character to keep the household together following her mother's death. A minor classic, The Setons remains as one of Olivia Douglas' best regarded and most...
It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato.It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as...
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