Hector: 430 books

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916) was a British writer better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro. The biggest population acquired by means of his witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirizing Edwardian society and culture. He is often considered a master of...

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) — a British writer who began his liteary career working as a journalist. Eventually he used this experience to write short-stories, which often satirised the life during the Edwardian Era. He also wrote a romantic comedy play 'The Watched Pot'...

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) — a British writer who began his literary career working as a journalist. Eventually he used this experience to write short-stories, which often satirised the life during the Edwardian Era. He also wrote a romantic comedy play 'The Watched Pot'...

This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.   The...

This early work by H. H. Munro was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Unbearable Bassington' is a novel detailing the story of Comus Bassington, the only son of Francesca Bassington, and his attempt to marry a wealthy woman so...

The saga of Timeless is about love and reincarnation which spans from Ancient Egypt to the far future when the universe meets its demise. It started when the High Priest of Min named Sabef fell in love with Prince Kawab. Yet, the prince was in love with General Hunefer. Angry & hurt, the obsessive...

As strange as this sounds, this happens to people all over the world all of the time. We hear stories of creatures entering a person's bedroom while they are sleeping and lifting them through the ceiling into a craft. We hear stories of women who have been impregnated by these creatures. These women...

It was not only the faces which excited his longings. In spite of himself, the opulent breast of the fair player entered his imagination and his thoughts seemed to search each one's neckerchief, seeking this powerful nourishment for his appetite. He had tried to drive away these abominable desires,...

Since 1977 the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield has staged the snooker World Championship and in that time become one of the most beloved and iconic venues in sport. In this book the UK's leading snooker writer Hector Nunns makes his selection of the greatest matches ever played in the famous amphitheatre,...

The saga of Timeless is about love and reincarnation which spans from Ancient Egypt to the far future when the universe meets its demise. It started when the High Priest of Min named Sabef fell in love with Prince Kawab. Yet, the prince was in love with General Hunefer. Angry & hurt, the obsessive...

HECTOR-HENRI MALOT, the son of a notary public, was born at La Brouille (Seine-Inferieure), March 20, 1830. He studied law, intending to devote himself also to the Notariat, but toward 1853 or 1854 commenced writing for various small journals. Somewhat later he assisted in compiling the 'Biographie Generale'...

Sans famille Hector Malot Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire. Rémi, l’enfant trouvé, est vendu à Vitalis, un vieux musicien ambulant. Les voici...

For the last several years, times have been tough for Scotland natives James and Charlotte Mathieson Hector and their four children. They live in fear of being remanded to the Indebtedness Court and placed in bondage as indentured slaves. They crave freedom and have learned it exists in America. Determined...

What is it about sitting round a campfire with friends that makes us want to tell scary stories? Is it that being out there in the woods adds an extra frisson of excitement to stories that might not seem half so frightening if they were told in the security of our homes? Or is it just that people...