A Symons: 6 books

A.J.A. Symons’s life is changed forever when his friend Millard, a dealer in rare books, lends him an old tome and a stack of manuscript letters. The book is Hadrian the Seventh (1904), the work of one “Fr. Rolfe”; it is a brilliant and bizarre fantasy, in which a downtrodden English writer...

'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued' One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown masterpiece, determines to learn everything...

“It is peculiarly true in the case of Edgar Allan Poe that to know him you must know more than the bare facts and dates of his life.” (Charles Alphonso Smith)

This book was originally published in 1933 as part of the Great Lives Series. Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh American journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Here is presented his biography includes his early live and travels and the stories of the major events in Stanley's life.

My name is Gear Bear (and for the record, Gear rhymes with Bear). I am a small, brown bear who has had the opportunity and pleasure of great travel, and these are my stories. I am a very lucky bear for so many reasons. I get to travel just about everywhere my friends and family gobut sometimes...

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.  Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea.  Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...