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Baboon Metaphysics: and More Implausibly Titled Books by Horace Bent (Ed.)
Category: Humour
The eagerly-anticipated Diagram Prize contest is back, and has selected this year's most bizarre book title. Established in 1978 by the Diagram Group to avoid boredom at the Frankfurt Bookfair and now presided over by the Bookseller, the prize has become an annual media event. Stuffed full of sniggering ...Show more
Classic Guide to Golf by Hutchinson Horace
Category: Sport | Series: The Classic Guide to
While the modern game of golf originated in fifteenth-century Scotland, the game's ancient origins are unclear and much debated. The first written record of golf is King James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction from learning archery. The world's oldest golf tournament still in ...Show more
Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and exquisitely crafted insights into ...Show more
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? A Powerful Story of Love and Survival by Horace Greasley
Category: Biography
The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? by Horace Greasley; Ken Scott
Category: Biography
An incredible true tale of one man's courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of love Horace "Jim" Greasley was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British go ...Show more
Gothic Classics: the Castle of Otranto and the Old English Baron by Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Leslie Klinger (Editor); Eric Guignard (Editor)
Category: Classic | Series: Haunted Library Horror Classics Ser.
Manfred, the lord of the castle of Otranto, has long lived in dread of an ancient prophecy: it's foretold that when his family line ends, the true owner of the castle will appear and claim it. In a desperate bid to keep the castle, Manfred plans to coerce a young woman named Isabella into marrying him. ...Show more
Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole; Kenneth Gross (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
The first surrealist stories in English, originally published in an edition of six all kept under lock and key by Horace Walpole.
Horace Odes IIIDulce Periculum by Horace
Category: Classics
The aim of this book is to provide a translation and commentary which will help newcomers to Horace, whether or not they know Latin, to understand how the poetry works. This third book of Odes begins with the 'Roman odes' in praise of Augustus, the ruthless politician who had won control overthe whole k ...Show more
Horace Satires and Epistles, Persius Satires by PERSIUS Horace
Category: Fiction
Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contem ...Show more
How to Be Content - An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Stephen Harrison; Horace
Category: Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections ...Show more
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
Category: Biography
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as ''Old Gorgon Graham, '' to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as ''Piggy.'
NO POCKETS IN A SHROUD by MCCOY HORACE
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Mike Dolan wages a long war against corruption. Surrounded by lies, he wants to print the truth. He quits his job on The Times-Gazette and founds The Cosmopolite with borrowed money.