Charles Packard: 5 books
Folly on Folly
The Praise of Folly, a 1509 Latin Prose Work, in Rhymed English Verse
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Not for scholars, but for a new generation of readers unaware of Erasmuss unique genius. An innovative, ingenious update. Kirkus Reviews.
Packards verse translation does what it sets out to do: enlivens what otherwise can be heavy going. Puckerbrush Review
Astoundingly clever. The Classical...
The Praise of Folly
A Rhymed English Verse Version of the Original Latin Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
By his own account, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch monk and scholar, wrote his 1509 Latin prose masterpiece, The Praise of Folly, "in seven days, more or less" while a guest at the London home of his friend and fellow humanist, Sir Thomas More. Friends with whom Erasmus shared his manuscript...
by Jack London, Golden Deer Classics, A.M. Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers...
by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...
by Charles B. Packard
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
This is a family story which traces the lives of two families Packards and the Fosters.The Packards left England in 1638, settled through out New England, and produced a Mississippi Steamboat Capt.- Charles H. Packard.The Fosters fought the British in Old Charles Towne, S. Carolina, in 1775-1778 and were part of the Old Three Hundred who settled in Texas in 1822.