Argus Press: 5 books

The difficulty of dealing with St. Thomas Aquinas in this brief article is the difficulty of selecting that aspect of a many-sided mind which will best suggest its size or scale. Because of the massive body which carried his massive brain, he was called “The Ox”; but any attempt to boil down such...

"Crônicas de Londres" são crônicas jornalísticas publicadas nos jornais de Lisboa "Diário de Notícias" e "A Atualidade", e na "Gazeta de Notícias" do Rio de Janeiro, a partir de 1877, que posteriormente foram, a grande maioria, compiladas em livros. Dotadas...

'Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories' is a collection of short stories that include 'Jimmy's Brother', 'Sentimental Simpson', 'Chubb of the Slipper', and many more. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter's School and the Board...

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America.

The book begins: There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing...