Thomson: 610 books

A Collection of Japanese Traditional Tales(18 Stories with Color Images) is timeless classic tale for children by D. (David) Thomson, B. H. Chamberlain and Mrs.T.H. James. In this book (A Collection of Japanese Traditional Tales) contains 18 stories with more than 280 color images :...

Published in 1908, this collection of five lectures features “The Wonder of the World,” “The History of Things,” “Organisms and their Origin,” “The Evolution of Organisms,” and “Man's Place in Nature.” Thomson imagines nature to be a vital book that humans must read—and the scientific history of earth is somewhat of a “story of genesis.”

“The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden.” “It was.” Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the rank of Inspector in the C.I.D., soon has cause to think this is a case of murder....

“There’s one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men’s size.” “Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood.” A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in the house. After he is arrested and...

None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night… Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink coat that she should have been wearing turned out to be the first clue Scotland Yard had...

“What are you looking for, sir?” he said. “Bloodstains.” Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The trail leads...

“I’m writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer’s laughing up his sleeve now that he’s got away with it.” An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident on Dartmoor: the verdict is “Death from misadventure.”...

This Collection bundles two of Cindy Thomson’s Ellis Island historical novels into one e-book for a great value! Grace’s Pictures: Grace McCaffery hopes that the bustling streets of New York hold all the promise that the lush hills of Ireland did not. As her efforts to earn enough money to bring...

A sorcerer in wax. A fugitive. Haunted by a past he cannot escape. Threatened by a future he cannot imagine.   Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally...

“Japanese fairy tale series (Volume 2)” is a collection of numerous Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English: no.13. – Silly Jelly-fish (Kurage), no.14. – Princes fire-flash & fire-fade, no.15. – My lord-bag-o’-rice, no.16. – Wonderful tea kettle, no.17. – Schippeitaro,...

The city of dreadful night is a poem of pessimism, which, neither widely read nor popular, has, however, a twofold value as a document of humanity and as an extraordinarily thorough and vivid representation of a sole, overmastering mood undesirable but undeniable. Written by the Scottish poet, James...

Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of Shakespeare's company, then a study of three individual...

A short ghost story set in a fictitious English village about a young guy who can't believe his luck when he finds himself the perfect place to rent in an idyllic village, where he and his girlfriend Mel will finally get to have some privacy. But he discovers within hours of moving in that there is...

“Japanese fairy tale series (Volume 1)” is a collection of numerous Japanese traditional tales and folklore retold in English: no.1. – Momotaro, no.2. – Tongue cut sparrow (Shitakiri suzume), no.3. – Battle of the monkey and the crab (Sarukani kassen), no.4. – Old man who made the dead...