Horace: 19 books

We offer to the general reader some specimens of Horace Walpole’s correspondence. Students of history and students of literature are familiar with this great mine of facts and fancies, but it is too extensive to be fully explored by those who have not both ample leisure and strong inclination for...

This is a short story for children about a zoo.  The main character is Horace the hippo, who introduces the story.  We later hear from the other animals in the zoo through dialogue between them.  At the end some facts have been included about the animals that feature in the story.

As the invaluable present I am making to the world may not please all tastes, from the gravity of the matter, the solidity of the reasoning, and the deep learning contained in the ensuing sheets, it is necessary to make some apology for producing this work in so trifling an age, when nothing will...

Synopsis Born in the slums of St. Marc. Haiti, Eddie Johnson grew up parentless. Growing up in the slums, he didn’t have much, but he made do with what he had. Growing up without his parents, didn’t affect him that much, because he had people around him that loved him, such as his best...

Cricket began when first a man-monkey, instead of catching a cocoanut thrown him playfully by a fellow-anthropoid, hit it away from him with a stick which he chanced to be holding in his hand. But the date of this occurrence is not easy to ascertain, and therefore it is impossible to fix the date...

EXTRAIT: Première partie : les principes généraux de la poésie     [1-37] L'oeuvre d'art, tableau ou poème, ne saurait être faite  de membres incohérents; elle est  soumise à la grande  loi de l'unité ...

A person living in a flat in a high rise block of flats has become bored of life. People are the main problem. Neighbours who have no respect. A boss who has no respect. There is only one way to deal with people like this. To kill.

Example in this ebook   One of the most delightful of the Last Essays of Elia is entitled 'Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading', a title which would serve very well to indicate the contents of this anthology. In bringing together into one volume the tributes and opinions of...

If you are currently looking for a job or are likely to be in the future, this is the book for you.  It covers all the essentials you should be aware of and hopefully comes up with some ideas that you may not have considered yourself and will improve your chances of securing the job that you are really looking for.

A family move into an old cottage in Wales to discover that they are actually living with a resident spirit; the ghost of a man that was killed in a battle between the Welsh and the English.  Robert, a property agent, buys the cottage for his retirement, not telling his family about the ghost;...

In this short story we view Christmas through the eyes of a dog called Holly as she celebrates her first Christmas and Birthday with the family.  Enjoy this heart-warming story for ages 7 to 70 and understand the true meaning of Christmas.

16 years old and a day, Holly, after having a sleepless night over a boy that she fancies at school, comes up with a plan to win him over.  Holly’s plan applies the ‘Cinderella Principle’ and involves leaving her one shoe with a cryptic message inside the boy’s locker and risking getting...

Do you have unanswered questions about Christmas?  What does it stand for?  Why do we celebrate it?  Discover the origins of the various aspects of Christmas, including: how the giving of Christmas cards came about, who made the Christmas tree popular?, how far back Christmas decorations...

This book is all about the Christmas recordings that made it in the British Singles Chart, since it began in 1952.  I start with the number 1 hits and move on to the recordings that made it into the charts but did not quite reach that coveted number 1 spot.  If they were in the top 10 they...