Horace: 273 books

Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but...

A young law professor is hired to clean up a city strangled by corruption Nemo Crespi’s organization has a hand in everything from gambling rackets to hotels to newspapers. To combat him, the governor needs a special prosecutor he can trust, someone free of political ambitions . . . someone...

Dr. Horace Gerald Danner’s A Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the medical and health-care professions. All word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings....

Dr. Horace L. Patterson has come up with an excellent question for Satan: “Is That All You Got?” This question hammers home the central focus of the Christian faith: Jesus’ resurrection. The author points out the failure of the adversary to stop Jesus from doing the good and perfect will of the...

Ce journal est un témoignage « en direct » de l’été 1787 et de l’ascension, pour la 2e fois dans l’histoire, du Mont-Blanc. Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) arriva le 7 juillet à Chamonix avec sa famille et d’importants bagages. C’était un scientifique accompli, fasciné...

Illustré de 90 vignettes par Horace Castelli L'histoire se déroule dans une famille riche et pleine de bons sentiments, les d'Orvillet. L'aînée des enfants, Félicie, est la seule à avoir des défauts, que ses parents et sa bonne essaient de corriger. Le héros éponyme de l'histoire,...

Horace and Bess, a brother and sister introduced to the pleasures of sex very early in their lives by another pair of siblings, enjoy nothing more than chasing those pleasures at home, in Europe and the Far East, finding them in the company of prostitutes and princes, soldiers and servants, in Venice...

Das Schloss von Otranto ist ein Roman des britischen Politikers und Schriftstellers Horace Walpole aus dem Jahr 1764. Walpole begründete damit die später sehr erfolgreiche Romangattung des Schauerromans (Gothic Novel). Der Roman stellte einen Bruch mit den Idealen der Aufklärung dar, die naturalistische...

Horace Walpoles Kurzroman „The Castle of Otranto“, der zuerst anonym als angebliche Übersetzung eines spätmittelalterlichen italienischen Manuskripts veröffentlicht wurde, prägt seit zweieinhalb Jahrhunderten die Romangeschichte und ist so zeitlos, dass er jede Lesergeneration wieder aufs...

Fürst Manfred sieht seine Erbfolge als bereits gesichert an. Doch eine dunkle Prophezeiung kündigt Verderben an. Als sein Sohn Conrad am Tage seiner Hochzeit von einem gigantischen Helm erschlagen wird, ist dies nur die erste unheilvolle Begebenheit, die sich zuträgt. Das düstere Gemäuer scheint...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...

The Gothic masterwork that revolutionized popular fiction When Prince Manfred of Otranto loses his son in a strange and terrifying accident, he fears that an ancient prophecy has come to pass and his family will be stripped of its castle and lands before he can produce a new heir. Desperate...

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Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world...