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Kemeny Andras is tall, handsome and has just inherited a vast fortune. He is respected and liked by all who live in the village. He seems to have everything: except Ilonka, the beautiful daughter of a noble lord. Kemeny is a peasant and therefore not considered to be a suitable match - until one night, disaster strikes. Loaded with twists, turns and tailspins; the author claimed that the events are based on a true story. -
The bizarre and hauntingly beautiful sketchbook diary of Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Arthur Conan Doyle, who in 1889 was confined to the dreary Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum in Scotland. He would spend the rest of his life in asylums but the question remains: was he actually mad? Readers may judge for themselves: the diary, long forgotten by the family and auctioned off in a job lot of books in 1955, then stored for another twenty years - is a wondrous blend of words and watercolour, facts and fancies and exquisitely detailed depictions of fairies and birds. At the core of the quips and Punch-like cartoons is a desperately lonely man, struggling to hold onto reality by facing his fears and fantasies through the medium of his art. Arthur's biographers have had very little to say about Charles or the circumstances that led the family to institutionalise him; what clues might the diary hold? Beautiful colour illustrations. Cover art by Colin Lewis.
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Phantom No. 7 . A palatial 200 ft yacht, The Sea Horse and a luxurious private island guarded by fierce dogs - all the property of the suave and charming Chris Danton. What is the source of his seemingly inexhaustible wealth? What is the grim secret behind the 'ageless' smile of the master of The Sea Horse ? The Phantom's sweetheart, beautiful Diana Palmer, innocently stumbles into Danton's web and finds herself caught up in an evil conspiracy from which she can be saved only by the power and ingenuity of the Phantom - The Ghost Who Walks...Cover art by George Wilson. -
Esquire's selection of the alumni of literature. These anthologies are becoming scarce, so if you are the type of reader who likes to have everything your favourite author wrote, don't delay! In this volume: Sweet Faces and Foul Minds, George Jean Nathan; Washing the Hands, Aiken A. Dehan; Latins Are Lousy Lovers, Helen Brown Noren; The Wench Is Not Amused, Anonymous; Essay on Jiggling, George A. McNamara; A Report On Man's Best Friend, Lawrence Martin; Christ in Concrete, Pietro di Donato; They Order It Better In France, Anonymous; No More Trouble For Jedwick, Louis Paul; The Beaut From Montana, Frank Scully ; Gold Star Mother, Philip Stevenson; A Good Job Gone, Langston Hughes; What I Am Faithful To My Wife, Thames Williamson; A Breast Of The Times, Herb Graffis; After Baby Comes, Douglass Welch; I Mix The Drinks, W.B. Lytton; Cafeteria Complex, Fred S. Tobey; The Martyr, Newman Levy; Don't Laugh Now, J.C. Furnas; You Can't Sleep With Women, Alan MacDonald; Yonder's Henry! Thorne Smith; Keeping Cool At Conneaut, Paul Gallico; The Resurrection of Solly Moon, Walter D. Edmonds; Greek Tragedy, Ring Lardner; I Drink American and Take Along The Little Pal! Donald Hough; The Snows of Kilimanjaro and On The Blue Water, Ernest Hemingway; Uncle Fonse Laughed, Jesse Stuart; A Duel by Candlelight, Andreas Latzko; The Tall Coorter, Sean O'Faolain; But For This...Lajos Zilahy; A Shot In The Forest, Felix Salten; The Night Before Chancellorsville, F. Scott Fitzgerald; A Place To Lay One's Head, Waldo Frank; The Kid Across the River, William McFee; The Lonesome Vigilante, The Ears of Johnny Bear and A Snake of One's Own, John Steinbeck; You, The Phantom, Theodore Dreiser; Snowfall in Childhood, Ben Hecht; The Seven Men of Rouen, George Slocombe; Black Tobias And The Empire, Heinz Werner; The Five-Pengö Girl, Sandor Hunyady; Never Comes Monday, Eric Knight; The Girl From The River Barge, Walter Schoenstedt; The Whole World Is Outside, Manuel Komroff; August Afternoon, Erskine Caldwell; The Euthanasian Garden, Havelock Ellis; The Art Of Understanding Women, W. Béran Wolfe, M.D.; Queen In The Parlour Car, Joseph E. McDougall; Are Wrestlers People? Westbrook Pegler; Hide Your Eyes and The Old School Tie, Edward Acheson; A Shipment of Mute Fate, Martin Storm; An Idea For A Story, André Maurois; So Smells Defeat, George Antheil; Three Dead Geese, Vincent Sheean; Token Of Esteem, Harlan Ware; Pim and Pooh, Ferdinand Czernin; The Monument, Irwin Shaw; Deutchsland Über Alles, J.L. Campbell; The Bronze Baffler, Hart Stilwell; An Adventureee Retires, Hilaire du Berrier; The Scent of Fear, Jack Melville; Three Skeleton Key, George C. Toudouze; Leningen Versus The Ants, Carl Stephenson. -
Only A Tramp: Grace Stebbing
$45.00Mr Charles Wynn, the Tramp of Silverdale Rectory, makes a reappearance. -
Published in 1973, this book has now become an interesting social and historical document. All things Australian are covered: our economic stability and strength; the vastness and sunshine of the land; our urban and industrialised life and our unique flora and fauna geography. Also covered are our political parties; our slang and currency; our living standards; private and public businesses; education; transport; arts, sports and amusements - all of which have developed with our unusual historical background. -
From the author of The Once and Future King. This volume contains: The Maharajah; A Sharp Attack of Something or Other; The Spaniel Earl; Success or Failure; Nostradamus; No Gratuities; The Troll; The Man; The Black Rabbit; Kin to Love; Soft Voices at Passenham; The Point of Thirty Miles; A Rosy Future, Anonymous; Not Until Tomorrow; The Philistine Cursed David by His Gods; A Link with Petulengro. -
How to survive minor social embarrassments - and somewhat reminiscent of The Grumpy Old Men television series! Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'Next!' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to slip under the covers before the lover of their dreams discovers they're wearing chewing-gum-grey undies? If you have, then Guy Browning is here with an invaluable guide to surviving such toe-curling moments. His advice includes: What to do when you discover the man you beeped, flashed and swore at for driving too slowly is your girlfriend's father who you'll meet for the first time that night. How to convince your friends that shoes with loo-paper attached to the soles are now a cutting-edge fashion statement. How to argue, persuasively, that George Eliot is in fact a man. Also included: how to use a library; how to push a shopping trolley; how to shop by catalogue and how to exaggerate. -
In 1965 a young man joined the well-established 'House of Pears' as a junior partner. Thomas J. Barrett's genius for advertising made Pears Soap a household name world-wide. But he also believed in education, convinced that poverty, squalor and slums were in great measure due to ignorance and realising that massive dictionaries and encyclopaedias were beyond the reach of the general public, he decided to publish a book that contained practical everyday information with general knowledge all in one inexpensive volume. And so, Pear's Cyclopaedia came to be published at the end of the 19th century. The book grew steadily over the years and changed as new knowledge was added - until countless copies found their way into homes all over the world. Now older editions serve as fabulous historical documents in which changes to nations, borders, medical knowledge, communications and all manner of general knowledge is documented. In this, the 1958 - 1958 edition: The Wider World (Events; Prominent People; A Citizen's Guide; The Law Of England; Background to Economic Problems; The World of Science; Greek Myths and Legends); Everyday Information (Gazetteer of the World; Atlas of the World; General Information; Literary Companion; General Compendium); Home And Personal (Medical Matters and Baby Care; Family Affairs; Hygiene and Cosmetics; Cookery, Wines and Indoor Plants; Gardening; Sports and Pastimes; Radio, Television and Radar; Poultry and Pigeons; Domestic Pets and Birds). Certainly a book with something for everyone. -
The Venture, an old Trident nuclear sub retrofitted for research has picked up an ancient and powerful artifact on the ocean floor and brought it on board. Called the Hades Stone, it allows the dead to return and join the living. Evil things appear in this world - phantoms. demons and an ancient being called the Stone Keeper, the guardian of the Hades Stone. The demons attack, killing the crew. The portal inside the Hades Stone fills the submarine with the accursed souls of the past. Jack Bavaro, head of Interceptor Force, has gathered his best operatives they know the submarine has been commandeered and they know they cannot just torpedo it - a navy attack submarine that tried was instantly destroyed by the demon-ridden submarine. They must enter the Venture and do battle at the bottom of the ocean. -
'...Containing the best modern methods for treatment of women's and children's diseases with a comprehensive index of symptoms.' Some listings of this book designate it as being first published in 1912 ( the date of the Australian Copyr4ight Act) but it was in fact first published in 1917 (Reference: https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=183E). Earlier editions are credited to Eulalia and Franklin Richards, her husband (also a doctor). Later revised and expanded editions are credited to Eulalia Richards only. A comprehensive manual for home health, it covers courtship and marriage; what is necessary for a successful marriage; sex; nutrition for mothers-to-be and children; chest, heart and blood diseases; urinary and genital diseases; nervous disorders and skin diseases; ear, nose, throat and eye problems; infectious diseases; tuberculosis; the relationship between health and women's dress fashions; bladder and bowel issues; puberty, menstruation and menopause; venereal diseases; health in middle life and home/first aid treatments. There's a great deal here that is commonsense, some treatments that definitely would NOT be used today and much to interest the medical student/historian. Illustrated. -
Yes, everything you thought you knew is STILL wrong! As made famous on QI - Quite Interesting with Stephen Fry. You'll be amazed at which country has the lowest age of consent; and that you should definitely NOT urinate on a jellyfish sting to ease the pain; and you will also discover when a spiral staircase is not a spiral staircase. Great potential for trivia buffs.
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The last chapter of Heidi was called, 'Promises to Meet Again.' In this sequel, written by Johanna Spyri's translator, all the timeless characters do meet again - Peter, the goat-herd; Clara, no longer an invalid; Granny; the good Doctor and Grandfather. There are new characters to meet and new stories to tell as Heidi begins a strange new life at boarding school. Illustrations by Pelagie Doane. -
The second volume of the Belle the Bushie stories by Pat Richardson includes those she read each Monday morning on 2SER-FM's new Horizons programme from August 1990 to January 1992. Mostly humorous, sometimes sad and even one or political commentaries, the tales cover Sydney and the bush, covering such topics such as AIDS, schixzophrenia, Country ARt shows, Women's Day Marches, the 'rellies', family Christmases and the Gulf War. -
Millions enjoyed Ronnie Barker - whether he was being one of The Two Ronnies, up to tricks in Porridge or was in hot pursuit of the desirable Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in Open All Hours. He was also a great collector, particularly of the most enchanting and fascinating picture postcards, produced in different countries from the late nineteenth century onwards. His collection numbered over 50,000. This is one of two volumes - The Green Album and The Red Album, published simultaneously - which show his eye for the saucy, the humorous or the ingenious. But they also provide entertaining galleries of a popular art form which is now the subject of collectors' dreams. As he said, 'The great majority of the better cards are indeed little works of art in their own right and they cost but a penny each.' -
The North had Rock Island - the South had Andersonville. The names of both of these prisons, during the American Civil War, struck horror into the hearts of those on both sides. The scene of human depravity is both inside and outside the stockade; death stalks life; the strong prey on the weak; humanity is redefined without redemption; indifference replaces humanity. Yet not all humanity is lost. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, prepared over 25 years of research and investigation and acclaimed as one of the finest Civil War stories since Gone With The Wind, does not only look at the prison camp, but at the lives of those it touched - weaving a story which is regarded as deeply disturbing, moving, grotesque, beautiful, brutal and comic. Regarded as an excellent companion book to GWTW.
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Book II in the Katy series. Dr. Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a year away at boarding school. A strange place and far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with Rose Red as an ally. -
Fields was the kind of an actor that only comes along once in several lifetimes - a comic genius and an original anti-hero, cantankerous, pompous and ribald. Here he lays out his proposed presidential campaign with biting wit: his views on politics, big business, marriage, babies, physical fitness and alcohol. A classic Fields comment: when asked if he liked children he replied, "Yes - but only if they're properly cooked." This is vintage Fields and his only book.
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