Hugh: 1441 books

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office is the 3rd of the Doctor Dolittle illustrated stories by Hugh Lofting. The story is accompanied by 77 pen and ink drawings also done by Lofting. These have been strategically placed throughout the book to keep young minds interested in the story. Set on the West Coast...

The King's Achievment is Robert Hugh Benson's second in a series of three novels designed to tell the story of the English Reformation from the Catholic point of view. (Goodreads)

In an isolated Roman villa, widowed English dancer Barbara Michaels serves as paid companion and tutor to twenty year-old Catherine, whose rich American mother thinks her 'mad.' In Barbara's eyes it's simply the case that Catherine is not 'all there', and dwells too much in the dysfunctional part...

Mrs Vidozza elects to suffer for her gifted, unhinged son; Charles is consumed by the habit of voyeurism; Antonietta succumbs to fascination with a murder she believes she has witnessed; sexuagenarian Daisy suborns herself for the sake of a young girl she imagines as a flower in an otherwise filthy...

In this 1980 collection Hugh Fleetwood links four tales by a red thread of theme. Author Tina Courtland, having retired to the Italian countryside, is lured back to London to write the life of the only man she has ever admired. Andrew Stairs, who has spent his life refusing to set foot on foreign...

A collection of essays relating to Robert Hugh Benson's conversion to Catholicism. (Goodreads)

Building on the classic foundation laid by Colonel Grover Criswell, paper currency expert Hugh Shull presents an authoritative guide to the state-issued money of the South, from the pre-Civil War era through the war years, and into the late 1800's.

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harbouring a priest was considered treason and was punishable...

This illustrated book is a humourous look at life through the eyes of a pre-teen boy as he leaves home for the first time to go off to a new school. It gives us a glimse of his new experiences,the scrapes he manages to get himself into along the way and the ingenious ways in which he manages to get himself out of them.

À la fin du XXème siècle, les progrès du matérialisme et de la Franc-Maçonnerie ont réduit la religion chrétienne à une infime minorité en Europe, malgré sa survie en Irlande et dans la ville pontificale de Rome. Mais alors que l'on attendait l'ère de la Paix Universelle, l'Asie menace...

In Dragon Lore Decoded the role of the Dragon slayer is reversed…the Dragon slays the Sun god of the myths and religions that have kept us locked in the Matrix. If you want to break out of the ‘Matrix’ and have a spiritual awakening it is essential to integrate the archetypal images in the book....

Did the world's most famous playboy prince become a king and then a traitor? King or Pawn? - Volume One of the dramatic saga The Fools' Crowns - weaves fact and fiction as dramatic events unfold. King Edward VIII is forced to face a terrible choice - his throne or his love. The King, the Royal...

The war for America’s soul is over; America has succumbed. The right-wing has triumphed, probably irrevocably, and in the process of consolidating its victory, has become a suffocating, worldwide monolith, its corporate and militaristic tentacles strangling the globe. Domestically, America...

From The Jeremy Trilogy, this book is a wonderful reminder of the magic of childhood, without being overly sentimental or saccharine. A pity Walpole had no children, I think he would have been a wonderful father. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941), a 20th-century English novelist, had a large...