Rhys: 329 books

Ernest Percival Rhys (July 17, 1859 May 25, 1946) was an English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including essays, stories, poetry, novels, and even plays. However, hes best known for his work in editing, founding the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. Rhys hoped to eventually...

So you want to know about the Faraway Brothers, do you? Born somewhere in Gascony, they were, in the 1880s, all three of them birthed at the same time from the same womb of the same mother. Grew up in the same household, they did too, eating the same food, reading the same books, counting...

American Interior is a psychedelic historical travelogue from Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys. In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was indeed, as widely believed, a tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans still...

Fairy Gold: A Book of Old English Fairy Tales was compiled by Ernest Rhys (1859 – 1946) and illustrated by Herbert Cole (1867 – 1930). Rhys was a famed writer and editor – best known for his role as founder of the ‘Everyman’s Library’, a series of affordable classics. Rhys was passionate...

From the author of In Farleigh Field... In Rhys Bowen's award-winning historical series, Molly Murphy is supposed to give up sleuthing now that she's married, but the murder of an alderman puts her on the trail of a killer. Molly Murphy, now Molly Sullivan, and her husband Daniel, a...

Dialogues of the Buddha by T. W. Rhys Davids The Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" delivered by the Buddha is first of the five Nikayas or collection belonging to the Suttapitaka or the basket of (Buddha's) discourses which is one of the three major collection...

In this life-changing book, energy medicine expert Rhys Thomas shows you how to discover your life purpose and align your decisions with your deepest self, so your life is fulfilling, productive, and full of joy. Trying to meet everyone else’s expectations about the type of role you should play—whether...

Ten finely-crafted tales that are tributes to the whimsical genius of the great writer, Italo Calvino... A city that consists entirely of corners; a ruler who exports all his country's freedom until there is none left for himself; a series of miniature adventures featuring a talkative sun; the story...

Award-winning author of In Farleigh Field Rhys Bowen marries charming storytelling with an edge-of-your-seat mystery set in early twentieth-century New York City in Bless the Bride With Molly Murphy's wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan quickly approaching, the Irish sleuth heads to the...

A bumper book of exactly 100 stories by a cult writer who has been highly praised by Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Bishop, Brian Aldiss and many others. 'The Tellmenow Isitsöornot' was a nonexistent book of tall stories that Edgar Allan Poe invented as a joke in one of his tales; try...

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx By John Rhys Important collections of Celtic folklore and one of the most important collections of Welsh folk and fairy legend, including many stories of fairy women who become wives and lovers. Many of these are from the lakes of Wales. John Rhys collected these...

Excerpt:"Shireen saw the princess tripping on a plank and hitting her head on her way down into the sea, falling unconscious. She rushed to find her underwater and once she did she headed to the closest shore. They looked at each other. Shireen smiled. The princess smiled."***Coming Soon: Beauty & the...

Excerpt:"'You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, Fiorella. And the nicest one. I think I might be in love with you,' Sogna confessed, making Fiorella redder than before.'And you're the nicest princess I've ever met. Which doesn't really say much since you're the only princess I've ever met,'...

VINAYA TEXTS - Part III T.W. RHYS DAVIDS AND HERMANN OLDENBERG PART III THE KULLAVAGGA, IV-XII Translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism,...