Rhys: 329 books

Un héritier play-boy. Une créatrice florale près de la ruine. Un faux mariage qui tourne mal… mais est-ce vraiment le cas ? Ronan Je viens d'une famille riche, mais je ne peux pas mettre la main sur mon argent en fiducie avant mes trente-cinq ans. À moins de me marier. Mais je ne peux...

The adventures of an exceptional mermaid as she travels from a carnival in tropical Brazil to a country where it never stops raining, Wales; and from there to the moon, where the lunar mermaids are the wrong way around. A magical mystical miniature trilogy for adults who still believe in whimsy, romance and fables!

A collection of 101 flash fictions by a writer who has made his reputation as a devoted champion of the short story form. None of the stories in this book are longer than 1000 words; many are under 500 words; some are less than 100. The very short story is a noble literary tradition and includes such...

My butler, Chives, had gone to answer the door.I made a great show of nonchalance, as I always do when unexpected visitors arrive during a period of crisis, and I took my oboe down from its shelf and played a sad melody. I heard the tramp of feet, five feet in total, which meant only a single visitor,...

Castor Jenkins is a Welshman who tells stories that may (or may not) be true...but no matter how fantastic, no one can prove they never happened! In the tradition of Lord Dunsany's "The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Tales of the White Hart," here is a collection of club stories full of wonder and marvels, as only Rhys Hughes could have told them

Tired of being given good advice in fables and parables by wise men, sages and gurus? Why not try Rhysop's Fables instead, a set of 150 unhelpful and irresponsible fables? There are no messages here telling you how best to live your life. That kind of thing is entirely up to you! The philosophy...

An entire story-cycle in miniature. One thousand years of the remarkable magical history of a secret region of Spain where few people venture even now. Albarracín is a rose-red town tucked away in the mountains of Lower Aragon. Once the seat of an independent taifa during the dominance of the Caliphate...

Scamps of Disorder is a work by Rhys Hughes composed by two different tales. Or maybe not.The Candid Slyness of Scurrility ForepawsDon't be polite. Don't be good. The world is evil. If you are innocent, then you are weak, you are exposed to the injustice of society. Hohwever, you have a chance: try to...

More unhelpful and irresponsible fables from the mind of the cult writer who brought you Rhysop's Fables... Join an absurd host of aardvarks, ghosts, pirates, flying jellyfish, hospitals made of lemon jelly, yetis, rhino cops, slobbery kisses and many more entities in the continuing quest to learn...

“Without music humanity would be a base thing. I know it.”It is not hard to agree on the opinion that music is an essential human experience, maybe it is just what makes human being properly human. That is what the protagonist of the last novelette by Rhys Hughes believed before living the most unbelievable...

Un playboy ereditiere. Una floral designer sull'orlo del fallimento. Un finto matrimonio finito male... o forse no? Ronan Sono nato ricco, ma non posso toccare il mio fondo fiduciario fino al compimento dei 35 anni. A meno che non mi sposi. La monogamia, però, non fa per me e il matrimonio...

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.

Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort against the Turks, is one of infamous might-have-beens. If only the Allies had held out a little longer,...

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids In Buddhism, the Patimokkha is the basic Theravada code of monastic discipline, consisting of 227 rules for fully...